I don't know about you, but I find this tragedy difficult to know how to respond to. First of all, I can't imagine anything so difficult to go through, because it involves children. When something happens to children, it is very hard for us to grasp. It is bad enough when something devastating happens to adults, but with children, it seems so senseless and cruel.
I've read through a couple of articles or messages on this, but the one I found tonight seems to be the most helpful. It is written by Ravi Zacharias on this particular incident. Here is the url for it, and I would encourage my readers to go to it and get a good perspective on it.
Ravi Zacharias on Newtown
Here is an excerpt:
My own attempt at saying something here is feeble but carries a hope
that somebody listening will make this world a better place. My heart
goes back to Angola Prison in Baton Rouge where I met such people
whose savagery took them to that destination. It was interesting to see
a Bible in every cell and to hear many talk of how it had become their
only means of life and hope. Someone with me said, “If we had more
Bibles in our schools maybe we would need less of them here.” To the skeptic and the despiser of belief in God, I know what they will respond.
I am quite convinced that the one who argues against this ends up
playing God and is ultimately unable to defend any absolutes. Hate
is the opposite of love and while one breathes death, the other
breathes life. That is what we need to be addressing here. The seeds
of hate sooner or later bear fruit in murder and destruction. Killers
are not born in a moment. Deep beneath brews thinking and the
animus that in a moment is uncorked. We are living in a society that nurtures hate on many sides with the result that lawlessness triumphs.
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