Moment of silence for the lives lost 7 years ago on this date.
God bless the families and friends of those who lost their lives.
As hard as it is to believe in the face of trials such as these, the echo of God's words in Genesis still ring in my ears: "God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good." Genesis 1:31 (My brother reminded me of this in a time of need.)
Sadly, it has been recklessly abused by humans since the beginning.
Yet, I offer up these words of hope in the closing paragraph of Simply Christian by N.T. Wright (essentially, an updated version of Mere Christianity), "...new creation has already begun. The sun has begun to rise. Christians are called to leave behind, in the tomb of Jesus Christ, all that belongs to the brokenness and incompleteness of the present world. It is time, in the power of the Spirit, to take up our proper role, our fully human role, as agents, heralds, and stewards of the new day that is dawning."
"A new heaven and a new earth." ...here we come.
(Rev.21:1)
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