Greetings Prayer Warriors,
When tragedy strikes our hearts sink. Today’s top story was about the shooting and
killing of children and adults at an elementary school. This event received heavy media coverage, but
I am sure that many other but no less significant murders occurred around the world
today that we will never know about.
Lord come and be with
the victims and their families to comfort them!
While the media is focusing on a proposed government ban on
automatic weapons as a result of this most recent tragedy, my mind wanders to
the perpetrators of such crimes. Shouldn’t
we be focusing on the people, not the weapons?
What kind of anger or emotional pain must one be in to think that killing
is going to relieve their pain, give them power, or bring them happiness? What must be missing from a perpetrator’s life
to get to that endpoint?
“You have heard that
it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who
persecute you, that you may be children of your heavenly Father, for he
makes his sun rise on the bad and the good, and causes rain to fall on the just
and the unjust. Matthew 5:43-45
We will never know the answer to “the why or the what?”. But we do know that we are called to pray for
all of our brothers and sisters in
Christ. Let us pray for the families
affected by this and other tragedies.
Let us pray for the victims. And
yes, let us pray for the love to be able to pray for the perpetrators.
Hug your children.
Hug your parents. Hug your relatives.
Hug your friends. Cherish your
time together. Work together to heal old
wounds. Tell your family and friends that
you love them. Perhaps this is the best
form of tragedy prevention.
Peace, Joy, and Love,
Janet
Love is the answer.
Pass it on.
