"all who are thirsty, and all who are weak, come to the fountain. dip your heart in the streams of life."

i've already mentioned somewhat my feelings about the shootings at Virginia Tech. but i have been stirred to make a few more comments...

when i checked my email today, i found that our school had sent out some mass emails to the students of SHSU regarding the Virginia shootings. so, naturally, i open and read the email. i would just like to give you two brief quotes from it:

" At this point it is too early to completely determine how or why such an incident that cost the lives of so many young people could happen in the seemingly
safe environment of a college campus."

um, excuse me? first of all, if you don't know how or why one human being could do something to hurt another, you must be living with your head buried in sand. and no matter how "seemingly safe" a campus is, it's just that: SEEMINGLY safe. none of the world is as safe as people make it out to be. bad things happen everywhere. people get hurt everywhere. no one is immune to pain.

" Such events may cause us to feel a temporary sense of discomfort. "

that comment makes me sick to my stomach. discomfort? are you kidding me? what an incredible understatement. admit it or not, people are in PAIN because of events such as these. when your friend or family member dies, are you just uncomfortable? what about the people who knew the shooter? i'd say they're experiencing a little more than discomfort right now. frankly, my heart hurts too. i may not have known anyone who was hurt, but that doesn't mean i don't feel pain when i hear that people were murdered. no...discomfort is not NEARLY strong enough a word to describe what people are feeling right now.

my heart goes out to the families and friends of everyone involved...pain may be a common factor in our lives, but that doesn't lessen its sting. we'll all be praying for the people affected by the shootings for a while...God bless.

"Who will separate us from the love of Christ? will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?...But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." --Romans 8:35, 37-39