I had plans for the 100th Post here to be something fun and funky ... but over the last 24 hours my heart has grown heavy at the news of YET another shooting in a school ...The news of any school shooting disturbs me - schools are to be places of learning, discovery and safety for our children (I may be too idealistic), not places of violent senseless actions - BUT, the shooting in Nickel Mines Pennsylvania disturbs me deeply ... So, today rather than dwelling on the details of the shootings that have robbed an Amish community of five little girls ... instead of revisiting the horrors inflicted on the rural community and its people, I instead simply want to pray for victims of violence ...
Whether they are in Nickel Mines, or Montreal, or Colorado, or Afghanistan, or in a hospital bed in Winnipeg ... the victims of violence are LEGION ... we as a human race have become very adept at inflicting violence and suffering on each other ... and it MUST stop.
Whether it is mad gun men stepping into schools and gunning people down, or domestic partners inflicting harm on their "loved" ones, or suicide bombers blowing themselves and others up, or faceless bureacrats tossing around statisitics like they are ONLY numbers ... the madness has to stop ... too many lives are broken and shattered and snuffed out by senseless violence ...
So, today my 100th Posting here is a prayer - a prayer for peace ... a call for peace ... a cry for peace ...
and may it come soon ...
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