What a horrific week for the American people. What a shock for the family and friends of those planning to attend a seemingly harmless event for sheer enjoyment. How does a human's heart become black with anger and bitterness, burning with an intensity so grotesque that the answer for them is to open fire on their fellow citizens? Now both the injured and uninjured in attendance bear wounds of physicality and of anxiety, flashbacks and nightmares. A regular marked day flashed quickly to a day of prominence and pain, one forever etched in their mind.
It is so scary to think that evil can lurk among unknown faces and passerby. We come into contact with countless people everyday, faces we see and then quickly forget, the person behind us in line at the store, the people we pass on our morning walk or jog, the kids running freely in the fields and playgrounds. How quickly we are robbed of our innocence and carefree thoughts and ignorance to horror and panic.
Fear and ugly premonitions now linger around joint comraderie and cheerful circumstances. Art and music usually brimming with beauty and laughter and dancing are now shadowed and tainted by these sudden attacks of violence. There will now be questions of concern and safety and worries from parents and loved ones as people group together in any number of great size and proportions.
Unfortunately, I cannot offer any clear answers or explanations for tainted humans who are selfish enough to think they have the right to determine the end to someone's life. However, as I look upon the sunset and hear the song of creatures early in the morning, I am reminded of the light that exists beyond the dawn. The light that has the power to change blackened hearts into those white as snow with the power and juxtaposition of crimson blood. It is our mission to spread cheer and good news which must increase in light of these bleak events. Though we may never grasp the reason for all of human suffering, we must remember the day in which it will drastically come to an end. All pain, tears, horror, terror, anxiousness and darkness will be usurped by a mighty King who does not delight in evil, but opposes it firmly. For it is Him that created goodness and mercy and lovingkindness and who values each of his beloved creations.
"Beloved, do not imitate evil, but imitate good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God." -3 John 1:11
Until next time,
Karly
