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Why is the question drowning my soul tonight as I listen to the news. I hugged my daughter a little closer and tried not to cry.
Valentines 2018 marred forever as we grieve the 17 teachers and teens at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, taken from us in senseless tragedy.
I loved Kate Motaung’s scripture that she shared tonight. The voice sounded melancholy, asking the Lord why?
Why do you make me look at injustice?
Why do you tolerate wrongdoing?
Destruction and violence are before me;
there is strife, and conflict abounds.
(Habakkuk 2:2-3)
Before this event occurred, I already sensed my soul drowning. Depression battles me.
I fight the urge to lock my daughter away in a high tower.
I fight other enemies that seek to destroy me too. Private enemies that I don’t want to give voice too.
Please, God take the pain away or take me to heaven to be with you.
I groan for you. I long for your touch, dear Jesus.
Lord, I pray for the victims. Lord, I pray for the mothers and fathers whose grief is drowning them too.
I will not write the usual platitudes. My faith is drowning too in anger and despair.
I hope a dawn will come soon and the Holy Spirit will breath comfort into my soul.
Written for the Five Minute Friday Community where today’s word is Why.
Our only hope is in Him, and a hard lesson for us all. I’m saying I love you a little more these days to my adult kids, and sending my husband off with more than a kiss and a hug, but adding please drive careful and I love you. We never know when it might be our last goodbye.
There are so many problems in the world today. Taking God out of the schools has made such a difference in how our children see things. It has to be something we are doing wrong raising our children other than the fact that they can get guns. A lot of us were raised with guns in the home but it has just been recent years that mass killings have been occurring. Our country needs all the God it can get.
Such raw honesty here. Well-said.
I come to this from a different place; back in the day, seventeen dead were normal wastage, no more. Spend time near Cali or Medellin around 1988, and you learned fast.
There are solutions, but no one wants to hear them. Control the Internet, censor Hollywood, and invite God back into the classroom and the public square.
Drive the pagans who control our lives through drugs and ‘tolerance’ back into their holes.
But no one wants to hear that.
Andrew, I agree we need to return to our Faith in the United States. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
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Yes, it is such a time to hold our children tight and remind them that the Lord is mightier than anything. Our strength is not sufficient for all the burdens of this world that we carry. Thank you for sharing your personal thoughts here.
Erendira, thanks for joining me this week. I hope you will visit often.
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I’m lamenting and mourning with you! #50 on FMF
We all grieve. Our hearts aare torn apart more with each tragedy. Better to be ripped little by little and have Christ mend us than to be desensitized little by little till there is no care left.
Beautiful post. Find comfort in Christ. It is only there we find it. #41 on fmf