What You Can Do?

It is sad and really, makes me cry the recent news about the elementary school at Newtown, Connecticut. I pray for the healing hearts of the families of the victims and for the souls of those angels and heroes who died in the misfortune. As I have been following the news and the updates, I can not imagine how devastated the parents and family of the victims have to be feeling right now, specially in a season like this one where everybody is happy and sharing time in family. What can be in the mind of a person to do the horrible things that man did to those angels and innocent people that day? How much anger, resentment, sickness, and craziness thoughts a person has in their minds to do something like that?

That could be only few of questions that come to our minds. As parents, we want the best for our children, we want to protect them at all cost, but sadly is how I heard in one of the conferences, as our children give their first steps and as they keep giving those steps, they are walking further from us. There are stories that will start arising from this horrible scene, like that teacher that give her live for her students, or like the father of one victim that wants unity and keep helping others. Terrible things like this one are the one that we most learn from it, this experience and other people tragedies are our tragedy too and we need to take action to prevent things like this keep happening in our communities.

We cannot point out the governments or school systems or even family systems as responsible of this tragedy. We all are responsible of tragedies like this one keeps occurring in our country. As mother and member of a community, I am going to put my part; I will not give violent video games to my kids. I think if every parent, uncle, aunt, grandparent, and neighbor figure out his or her part to prevent things like this keep happening, I am sure we all together can make the difference. There are so many small things that we can do like avoiding certain videos games, movies, toys, speak out when you see a different behavior, teach good values, praying, help someone in need, and many other little things that we can do to prevent tragedy like this one keep occurring. What are you going to do?

Psalm 14:1-5

14 The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is none who does good. The Lord looks down from heaven on the children of man, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God.

Big Hug,

MRM