The hearts of a nation are broken
today as we seek to figure out how to respond to the terrible tragedy in
Newtown, CT in which 20 children and 6 adults were murdered at Sandy Hook
Elementary School. The lives of many
parents, family and teachers have been forever altered by this unspeakably evil
event. A strange mixture of grief and
anger wells up in our soul as we try to make sense out of this senseless and
horrible massacre.
We grieve because we cannot imagine the sorrow and pain that these
families must now deal with. We grieve
because we know that our own children – though far removed from Newtown – must also
cope with the fear and anxiety that this event naturally provoke. And we grieve because, deep down, events like
this display all too clearly that something is terribly wrong in our
world. Evil is not confined to stories
or history or even our prisons and jails.
Evil walks openly in our streets, enters uninvited into our homes,
crashes into our schools. We cannot
escape it.
