This is the biggest change at my house yesterday between going to church and coming home. My rose opened so much more beautifully. No police cordon. No tears of grief that you knew were just the beginning and would stay with you the rest of your life. No funeral planning or trying to duck out on the national news folks camped in my front yard trying to ask me questions that have no answers - nor will they ever.
I'm not sure why I'm writing this except for the basic scrap of humanity that is left and mourns with those who lost all and turns off the news stories out of respect for their tears. If children dying didn't change things, if concert goers that just loved music didn't change anything why in the world would folks in a church? Besides, we did folks in a church already.
We live with hate crimes and deranged killers and those who have been bullied and those whose motives we will never know making waves that can't be topped. We know about Columbine, Sandy Hook, Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal, Las Vegas, the Orlando night club, movie goers, the Dallas sniper, San Ysidro and Sutherland Springs. The sad part is that I am leaving so many out.
I have trouble believing that the NRA and the lobbyists hold all the cards. Why can't we pass any kind of legislation? I read something this morning about if we can't regulate guns maybe we could regulate and stop production of bullets. Makes as much sense as anything thing else.
God. please help us to realize that this isn't about weapons, mental health, bloodshed or that tiny part of us that thrills to a new mass shooting story on the news and runs out to lay our wreath at the memorial. I can't think that God really needed "a new angel" for heaven. And far be it from me to try and figure out what my Creator needs or wants. The lesson that is being taught right now is a hard one. And we are a hard headed people. We say that Sandy Hook had to change the laws. We say that those who want to shoot will find a way. But can't we at least make it more difficult? I know that I am rambling- but I'm angry. I'm angry that it happens over and over and over again and we the people do nothing.
Nice flower but I like your ramblings so much better. It would be wonderful to have an easy answer. Perhaps the governor of Texas was right when he said we need to get back to our religious values.
