The sun rises and sets, the seasons come and go, and people blow each other to pieces.. .
. . .Some things don't seem to change.
At the end of the year I have to be jolly and willing to make a fool of myself at school for events like the Form 5 graduation dinner, the end of year fair and shows and all kinds of fun activities we have to end the year. I have to smile in lots of photos and sing funny songs and party with the kids but I find myself having to act a bit as I don't feel too jolly, I feel quite.....serious.
When the kids were killed in the school at Beslan in Russia, I was similarly impressed. They're quite special when you really consider events like this. The twin towers was perhaps in a different league to Beslan and London, it was powerfully symbolic and there were more deaths. I suppose whether its commuters, bussinessmen and women, or pre-schoolers, the result is the same. Pure tragedy.
Mad events like these seem to be coming thick and fast these days, bit of a gut-punch for the humanists. 'People can easily regulary, continually disregard the suffering and death of other people' POW! .. . .one. . . two. . . .three. . . .you're out! End of debate.
The Christian doesn't try to fully explain sutch madness. We can talk about free will but in the end, in the face of everything we just have to point to the cross and say. He took it too, he suffered the worst the world had to offer. He was in the classroom when the kids were slaughtered, he was looking out of the 70th floor window as a maniac steered a plain into the building, he was on the train when the lights went out, he was on the cross.
God forgive us.
At the end of the year I have to be jolly and willing to make a fool of myself at school for events like the Form 5 graduation dinner, the end of year fair and shows and all kinds of fun activities we have to end the year. I have to smile in lots of photos and sing funny songs and party with the kids but I find myself having to act a bit as I don't feel too jolly, I feel quite.....serious.
When the kids were killed in the school at Beslan in Russia, I was similarly impressed. They're quite special when you really consider events like this. The twin towers was perhaps in a different league to Beslan and London, it was powerfully symbolic and there were more deaths. I suppose whether its commuters, bussinessmen and women, or pre-schoolers, the result is the same. Pure tragedy.
Mad events like these seem to be coming thick and fast these days, bit of a gut-punch for the humanists. 'People can easily regulary, continually disregard the suffering and death of other people' POW! .. . .one. . . two. . . .three. . . .you're out! End of debate.
The Christian doesn't try to fully explain sutch madness. We can talk about free will but in the end, in the face of everything we just have to point to the cross and say. He took it too, he suffered the worst the world had to offer. He was in the classroom when the kids were slaughtered, he was looking out of the 70th floor window as a maniac steered a plain into the building, he was on the train when the lights went out, he was on the cross.
God forgive us.
posted by Mr.Thomas at 10:49
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