Like everyone else, still in shock over the Va Tech shootings. Absolutely unfathomable. It certainly doesn’t shake my belief in God. It just affirms my belief in evil. And it’s a tragic reminder of how much we need God.

I got a call from a Washington Post reporter asking me about my take. Honestly, I’m like everyone else. A lot more questions than answers. The only explanantion, in my estimation, is free will. We can exercise that free will to do tremendous good or tremendous evil. It is a reminder that within each of us their is the potential to become the greatest of saints or the worst of sinners.

Death is such a painful reminder of how sacred life is!

I think this is one of those situations where no combination of the twenty-six letters of the English alphabet can capture the thoughts and feelings. It’s hard to even know what to think or what to feel.

Praying for the familes. Praying for the campus.

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort , who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God. For just as the sufferings of Christ flow over into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows.

II Corinthians 1:3-5