| Tuesday, April 17, 2007 |
| Virginia Tech |
17 April 2007
 I can't begin to fathom being one of the many who awoke today still trapped within a nightmare. Although I do not personally know anybody whose lives were forever altered by yesterday's tragedy at Virginia Tech, I am still affected. It is my world that this happened in; the world I currently live in; the world my children live in; the world we all live in.
What does it all mean?
I know I lack an understanding to many things that happen in this world. Many times all I see and feel are disorder. But I need to believe that, to the One in who's world I live, there is order. I know I need to continue trusting in that. Like many of the parents of those who were killed at Virginia Tech, I am a stranger to the feeling of losing a child through tragedy, let alone one that is senseless. But I know He is not.
So that their lives will not be in vain, perhaps their brevity and sudden loss can be the reminder to all of us who remain here, trying to make sense of this world, that we really are not in control of our lives as much as we might think; that our lives, and the lives of those we love the most, can be taken from us or altered at the blink of His eye.
The fact is, what parent is ever prepared to relinquish the care of the children entrusted to us back to the One who entrusted them to us? We are blessed with children not for an indefinate period of time, but for an unknown period of time. Yet, as parents, what happened yesterday remains and will always be unspeakable. In our way of thinking, our children aren't suppose to die before us; let alone in such a violent way.
I pray for those whose lives have been affected by this tragedy; for the families and friends of the students and faculty of Virginia Tech who were called home yesterday. As for the misguided soul responsible, I know the Christian thing for me to do is to pray for him also; though I've no idea what I will direct these prayers towards. From the accounts beginning to surface, he was deeply disturbed, emotionally troubled, alone and without friends. I can't imagine what his family is going through. How will they cope with not only their grief for losing a son, but also knowing that their son was responsible for the deaths of others?
In memory of those lives lost and shattered at Virginia Tech |
posted by Don @ 11:01 AM  |
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