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A SEASON? FOR BLACKSBURG, VIRGINIA?
By beanerywriters(11,675)
SCRIPTURE: Ecclesiastes 3:1-2 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die;
Monday, April 16. The last day to file our local and state income taxes. The day of the Boston Marathon. I dare say, when we woke up, none of us gave a thought to Blacksburg, Virginia, except a few Western Pennsylvania residents who were relatives and boy/girl friends of one of the many Western Pennsylvanian students attending Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Then things changed. The first report suggested a possible murder-suicide on campus. Hourly news updates raised the number of victims— first about twenty, and finally thirty-three, listed as dead. Many more were wounded.
We cannot imagine a season for such senseless killing. I dare say none of the victims thought about dying on that very day. Although one fatality, a professor, was identified as being among the best bio-mechanics researchers nationwide, the students just starting out had unknown potential. Only God knows what they might have accomplished in their lifetimes.
Somehow this is supposed to make sense. We don’t know how or why! Mourners on campus are grieving so greatly they have no sense of a season in their life right now. But for everything there is a season.
Can we make sense of such an atrocity? Not without a lot of time, patience and intense soul-searching. Healing will take much time.
What do we do? For now we can only imagine the pain. Right now we can pray for those we do not know, those we never will know. It is our season for prayer and introspection. Our prayer support matters in their lives. As members of God’s family, we offer our modest prayers for those who mourn. Amen.
---written by The Rev. Monte W. Holland for a Bethlen Communities newsletter | |
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