While cleaning my room and contemplating today's tragic school shooting in Connecticut, I saw my copy of When God Weeps by Joni Eareckson Tada. If God ever weeps, it would be days like today.
God has an interesting position, because in Revelation we read that God will wipe away every tear from our eyes. God lives outside of time, so in one reality, God has all those children and teachers and they are reunited with their families and all is joy and peace.
But God is still present here in our reality, and here God weeps with us. In fact as those parents grieve the loss of their children, an unimaginable loss to me, God needs no imagination, because God has suffered in that very way, the loss of a child. God knows this pain. God has walked this road.
I pray that today all those bereaved by this tragedy sense God's walking beside them. And the rest of us too, as best we know how.
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Always loved Joni, so special. It is a sad time when children so innocent are taken. our Father holds them. I enjoyed your blog.
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