All I can find to say has been said before--by Jeremiah, and quoted on another blog which brought it to my eyes.
"My eyes fail from weeping, I am in torment within; my heart is poured out on the ground because my people are destroyed, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city."
Lamentations 2:11.
How fitting. I am in torment within. I am in anguish for families torn apart by violence and tragedy. For mothers and fathers and siblings and teachers and neighbors who no longer have "as usual" in their life lexicon. I have no healing words today--or yesterday, or since I heard about Sandy Hook. I only have tears. And hope that tomorrow will be less awful. And hope that somehow, someday, Jesus will make sense of all of this horror. For all of us.
My heart is poured out on the ground. May the giver of all life return it to me, once again able to live in hope and peace. May He do this for us all.
