Depravity

"Complete and utter depravity."
That is what continued to run through my mind as I sat glued to the tv watching FoxNews for the past 45 minutes.

At least 32 people are dead at Virginia Tech, about 28 wounded and in the hospital with 4 in critical condition.

This school shooting is the worst shooting in US history, not simply for schools, but shooting, period. I guess when I think of school shootings, I see it as somewhat limited to high schools with the whole teenage angst thing. But this is mad crazy.

You would think to shoot over 60 people you would need massive amounts of weapons. They were saying that the shooter, who is dead, could easily have had a fanny pack with 2 handguns and multiple clips, weighing under 5lbs and it wouldnt be noticed at all. That is ridiculous.

I immediatley thought of Columbine when I first was reading about this on abcnews.com this morning. And I found out that this week it will have been 8 years since the Columbine massacre. Its crazy to see how things have changed drastically in my lifetime, but I cannot even begin to fathom what things will be like for my children. This world is crazy. It is insane to look back and remember the Columbine shooting, the Oklahoma City Bombing, 9/11, even the shooting this past year in PA at the Amish school and now this. The largest schooting ever in U.S. history.

I am definitley praying for the students at Virginia Tech, their families, faculty members, the police and emergency responders. A lot of people are effected by this, the school has over 25,000 students! I couldnt begin to imagine that happening to me, or even to people that I know. I have already found out that several of my friends have siblings and friends that go to college there.

I pray that as these people are hurting and searching in their lives, that God's grace and love will be poured into their lives and made evident, because they need Jesus so badly. I mourn for the souls that have entered into eternity today and the likelyhood that they may not have known Christ as their personal Lord and Savior and that means that they are destined for hell.

Reflecting.
Alex

"3Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade—kept in heaven for you, 5who through faith are shielded by God's power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. 6In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. 7These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed."

1 Peter 1:3-7