Original Post: 2012
It’s been a while since my last blog. I been dealing with a lot
personally, professionally and just in general. Missed me? LOL. I
wanted to take the time to write a blog reflecting on the recent tragedy
that happened in CT with 20 kids and 6 adults that were shot and
killed.
Some people that have come to me asking how I stay strong in my faith
when something as awful like this happens and God allows it. Those
children were innocent. I wanted to take the time to reflect on that
with the Word and my personal thoughts.
1. I’m am incredibly sad and it breaks my heart over and over again
to know that something like this happened. I can’t even begin to imagine
what the families and other people that knew these victims are going
through right now. Though I’m saddened I am, unfortunately, not shocked.
The Bible prophesies about the last days and how everything is just
going to start getting crazy (in summary). As I read and reflect on this
I look for signs of the end of times and try to prepare myself for all
the crazy stuff that will happen. I see this as one of those signs. Now
please don’t misunderstand me, I’m not saying the world is going to end
tomorrow, next week, next month or next year. Our timing is not God’s
timing and “soon” for Him could mean years or decades. God does not live
in our timing.
2. Why did God allow this to happen? These kids were innocent. No one
but God can answer that question so we should probably stop trying to
find ways to answer this question. Our thoughts are not His thoughts and
His ways are not our ways. God uses circumstances to discipline us
(because we are His children. A good father disciplines) or even teach
us a lesson. Let’s be real here this was a HUGE wake up call for the
nation. When we are children, fire looks cool, we want to touch it and
play with it. Our parents, however, yell NO! We can’t understand why
because we don’t have the understanding to know that fire will burn,
burning will hurt. I believe in due time God will reveal His purpose in
this. Until then…we pray. We also have the realize that the devil has
power to influence. I believe he played a huge part in this and
whatever reason, God allowed it to happen. However, everything that the
devil meant for evil, God can turn it around for good. I know extreme
grieving caused me to fall to my knees and surrender realizing that I
can’t do this on my own. This caused me to give my life to Christ. I
pray that this will bring more people to Christ.
3. I’m not going to speak on gun control laws. I’m not political at
all, I don’t get into debates and to be quite honest I don’t have an
opinion on them because I don’t know a lot about that area. I will
research though, I promise. A lot of people ask “where was God when all
of this was happening?”. We live in a country where God is no longer
allowed in schools. You can’t say “Merry Christmas” it’s now “Happy
Holidays”. When someone sneezes it’s no longer “God bless you”, it’s now
“Bless you”. No prayer, no teaching about the Bible. We’re even taking
God out of the pledge. I think it’s fair to say we, yes WE are trying to
push God out of schools. (Disclaimer, I know there are Christians that
are activists and fighting against this and that not everyone is trying
to do this but I’m grouping everyone as a nation). We have basically
said we don’t want you here, we can handle all of this on our own. God
is a PERFECT gentleman. He will not force His way into your life if He
is not invited and thus He will not force Himself into our school
systems if we don’t want Him there. So it’s interesting that we demand
to know where He was and why He didn’t stop this when we told Him we
don’t want Him there. Now we turn and blame Him. I think we as a nation
have been compromising ourselves for a long time in many different
aspects (by long I mean decades). It doesn’t seem like that much of a
big deal but each time we compromise it’s like a little drip from a
faucet that isn’t initially harmful. All those drips, however turn into a
pool of water that will eventually burst and flood through. Every time
something outrageous happens, there goes another burst. Regardless of
how we have treated Him though I believe He is with each and everyone of
those families comforting them and bringing them though, He’s just like
that. Now I’m not saying this is THE reason why this happened nor am I
trying to downplay the tragedy of what happened. But I think it’s
important to sit and reflect on this and realize that the decisions that
we make not only affect us but our future generation who may very well
be as innocent as these kids. We need to be more purposeful and
intentional when making decisions. We need to take responsibility for
the roles we may play in big awful things that happen whether it’s
directly or indirectly.
4. The shooter has some form of mental illness. I’m not sure if it
was directly related to the shooting but it brings up the issue of
mental illness in general. We need to be more intentional about making
sure we take care of those that are struggling with the issues. I have
never had a mental illness before and I can’t begin to imagine having
one. So I’m not going to sit on a high horse and judge anyone. As awful
as what He did was, we need to pray for him and his family and learn to
forgive. The fact that someone would desire to kill 6 & 7 year
olds…my what was going on in his head?
I end by urging you all to keep these families in your prayer. They
need it now more that ever. The Christmas season in itself is known to
be a time period where the suicide rates go up so we need to cry out to
the Father on their behalf and anyone else who might be grieving. Those
children and teachers were never ours to begin with, they were always
God’s. He has now taken them home and I like to believe that they are
having a blast up in heaven. The type of fun we can’t even begin to
imagine.
R.I.P
* a moment of silence*
-Tasha
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