In my prayers tonight

North Campus, UGA, taken last weekend- brought memories of college days.


Feeling so sad and mournful for the young students and professor killed at Virginia Tech today. It makes no sense to me. I don't understand the taking of another life, I know most do not. It is mad, insane, depressing to add to the descriptive of humans. All the dreams, the friendships, the rivalry of team games, the learning, the love, the future- the pendulum of their being swinging from childhood with excited force towards the beginning of adulthood. I pray for each of them tonight and for the love ones who will have to move forward without them, holding onto memories as tightly as possible into their following days. To those who were injured and have to continue to hold the memory of this tragedy in their following days, I pray for healing growth. To all the students of Virginia Tech who stressed over exams, jobs, future, family squabble and just trying to find their way, I hate this had to be part of their experience because the aforementioned I would hope to be the only stresses in their lives, not something as incomprehensible as this. I know this is an important time for them and it's just so shocking and sad.
I know the healing will come, the day slotted into memory, and the cheer of young students to rise again. Tonight, I know there is devastation and I am silenced in thought that this day marks the largest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. I know death is part of life and I feel anxiety at the fact murder takes place everyday in our country, devastatingly so in others. I know people die every day in war and I know I will never understand it. I cannot fathom the taking of an innocence that was not theirs for the taking. I just cannot make sense of it and so I will pray with mournful tears, not looking for an understanding, but giving instead my love and condolensces I hope reaches across the span of miles to each of their dear hearts.