I have been
watching all the news, posts, and comments that flow through the
Facebook feed, as I am sure many others have been doing as well. I see
the multitude of opinions regarding who's fault this is and why it
happened. There are those who feel that if gun control was more strict
it wouldn't have happened, or if gun control was more lenient it
wouldn't have happened. Maybe it is the media's fault for making the
shooters into a famous person for others with intentions to kill to
idolize. Maybe the fault lies in that the school did not have a police
officer on staff, or even a security guard. Maybe they didn't have a
good enough policy put into place to handle this kind of situation. It
could be the fault of the politicians, or the schools or the people
around this person for not doing more to stop him. Maybe it happened
because people didn't pay enough attention to the warning signs.
Because, you know, someone should have been able to see this coming.
Maybe he was pure evil, full of the devil himself. Somehow he could
have been stopped. Right? The question on everyone's mind is this, how
do we make sense of this. Seems like a simple question that someone
should be able to answer for our human minds that need to have a
solution to a problem Our human minds that want to find a logical
explanation, and possibly even another person or outlet to blame.
Here is the fact of the matter. You can not make sense out of something that is senseless. You cannot find reason in something that is unreasonable. You can not comprehend something that is incomprehensible. Murder, mass killings and violence have been around since the beginning of man. Starting with Cain and Able and continuing through every mass murderer, serial killer and massicast through our tormented history of life. We will never be able to wrap our minds around what these individuals might have thought, or what lead them to their actions. And the devastating fact of the matter is, we will probably never be able to stop them, no matter what we do. Because you cannot be prepared for this, no matter how much you want to be. I do not know what this young man's life was like, what his thoughts were, what his afflictions were, what pain he himself may have suffered, if there were outside influences such as drugs or alcohol involved, if someone had tormented him, if he had always tormented others. The only thing I do know is that for whatever reason, this young man woke up Friday morning and ended up at this school shooting young children and adults. The only other thing I know is that Christ forgave a sinner who had been sentenced to death as he hung on the cross next to him and told him he would see him in paradise. I feel fairly certain, that had the people who this man sinned against been asked, they would have raised their voices in anger and rage at the thought. They would have probably yelled from the streets that he did not deserve forgiveness and absolutely did not deserve to be raised to heaven with the Lord. But, that is what the Lord Christ did. This statement may outrage many, and may cause some to have less then kind feelings toward me, but I will be praying for the soul of the young man who committed this horrendous act as I continue to pray for those who lost their lives and the families that are left behind to grieve. The Lord has told us not to judge. To leave that to him. I will obey those commands. This by no means is to say that I don't find this one of the most horrendous acts I have heard of, at least in my life time. It is unfathomable to me how any individual can do this. Which is exactly my point, we are human, and not able to fathom what is in another human mind when an act like this occurs.
I end with this, I will pray every moment of every day for the those who lost their lives and the families left behind. I will mourn for them as my heart aches so badly it feels as though it will come out of my chest. I am no different that anyone else, as we are all human. There is a part of myself that would love nothing more than to condemn this man. There is a part of me that longs for answers. But we are not granted access to those answers in this world. We may come close, and may even think we have found some, but we will never truly know until we meet the Lord our self, and then, if he decides to open our eyes to what he knows, we may have a hint at the answers to some of these questions. I will also pray for the soul of this young man that the Lord meets him with a just punishment and judgement. But I will not try to figure out who else might be to blame. I will hold my children tighter, hug and kiss them often, and pray that I do not ever have to encounter such a thing. I will try to remember, that someone loved this young man, that he at one time was a child himself and someone worried for his safety. I will not try to find an answer to an unanswerable question. How do we make sense of this? We do not, for we are only human and unable to see into the mind of another.
Here is the fact of the matter. You can not make sense out of something that is senseless. You cannot find reason in something that is unreasonable. You can not comprehend something that is incomprehensible. Murder, mass killings and violence have been around since the beginning of man. Starting with Cain and Able and continuing through every mass murderer, serial killer and massicast through our tormented history of life. We will never be able to wrap our minds around what these individuals might have thought, or what lead them to their actions. And the devastating fact of the matter is, we will probably never be able to stop them, no matter what we do. Because you cannot be prepared for this, no matter how much you want to be. I do not know what this young man's life was like, what his thoughts were, what his afflictions were, what pain he himself may have suffered, if there were outside influences such as drugs or alcohol involved, if someone had tormented him, if he had always tormented others. The only thing I do know is that for whatever reason, this young man woke up Friday morning and ended up at this school shooting young children and adults. The only other thing I know is that Christ forgave a sinner who had been sentenced to death as he hung on the cross next to him and told him he would see him in paradise. I feel fairly certain, that had the people who this man sinned against been asked, they would have raised their voices in anger and rage at the thought. They would have probably yelled from the streets that he did not deserve forgiveness and absolutely did not deserve to be raised to heaven with the Lord. But, that is what the Lord Christ did. This statement may outrage many, and may cause some to have less then kind feelings toward me, but I will be praying for the soul of the young man who committed this horrendous act as I continue to pray for those who lost their lives and the families that are left behind to grieve. The Lord has told us not to judge. To leave that to him. I will obey those commands. This by no means is to say that I don't find this one of the most horrendous acts I have heard of, at least in my life time. It is unfathomable to me how any individual can do this. Which is exactly my point, we are human, and not able to fathom what is in another human mind when an act like this occurs.
I end with this, I will pray every moment of every day for the those who lost their lives and the families left behind. I will mourn for them as my heart aches so badly it feels as though it will come out of my chest. I am no different that anyone else, as we are all human. There is a part of myself that would love nothing more than to condemn this man. There is a part of me that longs for answers. But we are not granted access to those answers in this world. We may come close, and may even think we have found some, but we will never truly know until we meet the Lord our self, and then, if he decides to open our eyes to what he knows, we may have a hint at the answers to some of these questions. I will also pray for the soul of this young man that the Lord meets him with a just punishment and judgement. But I will not try to figure out who else might be to blame. I will hold my children tighter, hug and kiss them often, and pray that I do not ever have to encounter such a thing. I will try to remember, that someone loved this young man, that he at one time was a child himself and someone worried for his safety. I will not try to find an answer to an unanswerable question. How do we make sense of this? We do not, for we are only human and unable to see into the mind of another.
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