I know that you are hurting right now. We are all hurting, because word has gotten around so quickly...all but hermits and those who don't care have seen the news,and heard all about that "depressed" young man who decided to go on a rampage today and ended up shooting and killing 22 people, including himself,and injured countless others.It's a hard thing to witness via t.v.: it's an even harder thing to report, or blog on.And yet, it's even more difficult to be silent. If by not saying anything on the situation gives one the feeling that some people don't care, then I must speak. If in speaking I bring you to tears, or to wrath, then that at least is an emotion more easily understood and dealt with than the emptiness inside left by the vast sense of waste of those lives, so full of potential,cut short before they could realize their dreams and ambitions. My heart and soul goes out to the parents of each and every student injured or killed today,as well as the families of the instructors who put their lives on the line to protect their students.
In the next few days your going to hear a lot of flowery speeches about those involved,and see footage of people in churches crying and praying,just as we have seen before when a tragedy has occurred. Whether this signifies a long term beginning to a commitment to God from now on, or just a short term gesture,because they are frightened or in mourning,none but God can tell. People will react in strange ways at times like this.
As my Mother used to say: this reminds me of a story.
It seems a young mother took her little boy to his first day of school,and walked up to the teacher, and informed her that in no uncertain terms she did not expect the teacher to hit her little sensitive boy."Oh?" the teacher said," Then he's so well behaved, he won't be acting up?" "Oh,no! I don't mean that at all! He probably will act up...a little. But he's so sensitive, that all you have to do, is hit the kid next to him, and he will settle right down!"
So, my question to you is, what do you think? Might this instance be yet another situation,where God allowed this to happen, in effect, hitting the kid next to us, to get our attention? Another warning to get yourself right with God before something worse comes upon us?
I think it could very well be so.
I'm praying for all of you, and God bless you all.
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