tragedies, the world over, and near home

[PATRICIA DESERT]

Yes, insanity knocks again and again.  I am making prayers for those who passed over and those loved ones who remain.  And something that this listserve has reminded me of recently, I am also praying for the willingness to make prayers for the young man who was compelled to take life instead of fostering his own.  That is a much harder thing for me to do, especially when I think of the possibility that one of my own children could have been caught in the cross file.  But then isn't that the point, that we are all related? {sigh}  Patti

----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ann Hale<mailto:annehale at swva.net> 
  To: grouptalk<mailto:list at grouptalkweb.org> 
  Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 7:32 PM
  Subject: tragedies, the world over, and near home


  I live a few miles from Virginia Tech and family and friends teach there.  The deaths of students and faculty may be senseless and yet we have a nation which continues to support "the right to bear arms".  Yesterday what was born in arms were gunshot students, some dead, some bleeding out, some not even twenty years old.  The seller of the second gun, a Glock, was interviewed. He was shocked to find that it was a gun he had sold him. He said, " I just wish it hadn't been my store."   

  Well, I just wish it couldn't be anyone's store.  Fortunately there are countries who have banned personal side arms. Maybe we can learn from them.  This is something I hope to talk to others about in the World Cafe.  Please pray or offer up a healing energy for these families and the recovery of this whole community.  Grieving, and yet I did not know a single one of them personally. Ann Hale
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