Our church held a prayer vigil last night
There was a prayer vigil at our church last night.
My daughters and I went to church and saw many people I know and care about walk in, light a candle and sit in silence at church last night. The question that hung heavy in the air was WHY.
The white flames if the candles flickered and we sat there in stunned silence praying, pretty much because we needed to do something. Because it was so hard to know we really couldn’t do anything.
Our young pastor sat in a pew silent; he has a seven year old daughter.
My daughters are 17 and 13 and they clung to me like babies while tears slid down my cheek.
We are living in a world where mass shootings are so common it takes something of this magnitude to shock us. I think that is almost as horrifying as what happened at that school.
I hope with all my heart that we have finally reached a point where we can take the politics out of the discussion and sit down as human beings and discuss how mental health care must be improved and how gun control is a necessity.
The chairman of the NRA should have to attend 20 funerals and so should those members of congress on both sides that are so quick to want to cut social security and who have been responsible for closing down mental health facilities all over this country.
12/14/12 was a 9/11 of a different kind, and it needs to have the same amount of attention, but with the intended outcome to be a healthier safer country.
