Monday, April 16, 2007

another school shooting...

sometimes I really dislike having a newspage as my home site when I turn on the internet...

today is one of those days.

In Virginia today, at a community college, at least 22 people (possibly more) have been shot dead in the case of another deadly school shooting (according to the CBC). As I read it, I couldn't help but enter into that horrific spot, that place of hearing gunshots resonate through the building, 30 to 40 times...the sound of screaming...it's all too graphic for me, and nearly brings me to tears.

What's going on in our minds these days? That's where it starts.

I pray for these families that had to wake up this morning to a phone call, or a police officer, or, worse yet, the news, telling them their child (or husband or wife or father or mother or daughter or brother)... has been murdered.

It's times like these that the thought of having no God, having no order, is far scarier than having a God who seems to "let these things happen."

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good point. A God that we can't understand..even question..much better than no God at all.

Anonymous said...

I often struggle with the description of a "God who lets these things happen". Don't get me wrong, acts of violence such as the Virgina Tech shooting are absolutely horrible, but we do live in a fallen world, a result of our free will. I think that occurences(sp?) such as these truly are a symptom of man's evil heart. If God stepped in, we wouldn't have our free will. I guess what I am trying to say is that we can't have it both ways. Our free will created this fallen world and all the evil it contains, but it is also this same will that gives us the ability to choose God, and enter into relationship with him. If God intervened with the consequences of our actions, we wouldn't really have free will at all. Does this make any sense?

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