Like many of you, I have watched and listened to the coverage of the shootings that took place at Virginia Tech earlier this week, and my heart is saddened by the tragic loss of life. I mourn with all of the family members and friends of those who were killed, and I hope you will join me in remembering them in prayer. This is an opportunity for us to demonstrate the love of Christ to people everywhere who are truly hurting and searching for answers.
Over the past couple of days time and time again I have heard people say something like, "This is just unimaginable," "I can't believe something like this could happen," "No one could have anticipated such a tragedy." Those statements are all too common these days. I have to wonder if we really should be so surprised that something like this did happen, and should we not anticipate that something similar will most likely happen again? Without doing any research I can recall school shootings in Colorado, Mississippi, and Arkansas. I think of the mall shooting in Utah earlier this year, the D.C. sniper shootings, the anthrax scare, the numerous bomb threats at schools, businesses, and government buildings, the terrorist attacks on 9/11, the grisly domestic crimes and numerous other stories that indicate we are living in a society that is becoming increasingly violent and dangerous. How do we respond? How do we explain this?
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