I hate bad news. Tragic news.
I cried in church over the Newtown shooting, and now this. And countless other things happening that just make this world a sucky, terrible reality. It's horrible. Disgusting. I can't express how bad it is in any words, though I try. I don't understand the suffering and I can't comprehend it. I have experienced it in small measures, but nothing like this.
What do you even SAY?! "My heart goes out to them", "Praying for them", "Feeling for the families" "Sorry for your loss"? What meaningless words. A heart behind them, but after a while, words don't mean anything. Just words, words, words--as Hamlet would say. And when each catastrophe happens, will the only thing we can say be "My thoughts are with you"?
No. That's stupid. That's horrendous and impersonal and....ARGH.
My reality goes beyond this. I sincerely believe that Jesus Christ will come back and there won't be any more loss or terror or suffering.
And someone may scorn my faith or call me insensitive to switch the focus. But it's not switching the focus, it's finding the hope that Jesus offers in terrible moments throughout life when we find ourselves feeling hopeless.
Let each person hold on to whatever it is that uplifts at a moment like this.
In case you have no idea about the Boston story, here:
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/live-updates-explosion-near-boston-marathon-finish-line-192213861.html
I hope others have a hope to cling to. Mine is that this will all end soon.
"Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”Verse of the Day: Revelations 21:4 "He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. All these things are gone forever."
― J.R.R. Tolkien (I might add that those who don't weep are not really admitting their feelings to themselves.)
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