Last night's shooting in Aurora leaves us vacillating in our souls between numbness and horror, and grasping for meaning; for we are "meaning makers", we human beings, and so it is that "senseless tragedy" is particularly hard for us to swallow. We feel that something must be done or said to put it all in perspective.
And it is just there that we are likely to go wrong, for the wise writer of Ecclesiastes says:
I was planning to blog all day, but I didn't really know what to say. And it didn't feel right to mix the tragedy that happened with a post about fried eggs and Bento boxes. And it's not like I could NOT say anything about it in my blog as much as I would like to avoid such a horrible situation, it hit way too close to home. I'm so heartbroken for all of the people who were in the theater and for all of the people who will ultimately be impacted by it. I chose to share the above blog post because it makes more sense than anything I could manage.
Yes, “Numbness and horror”.
Take care.