Like so many of you I watched in horror as the news about the shooting at Ft. Hood started to spread. Apparently an Army psychiatrist allegedly opened fire at Fort Hood, Texas, killing 12 people and wounding 31 others.
The event was a violent reminder that none of us get to choose how we die in this world, but we do get to choose how we live.
Hope you’ll take some extra time to pray for the families impacted by the shootings.
Wow, great reminder. Well said. Thanks for the post! I’ll be praying…
You are so right. This is such a sad situation. I will keep the families in my prayers. http://tradinawaller.com
Oh how sad. sorry didn’t hear the news here. (I’m from the Netherlands). Perhaps they did mention it but I missed it.
Praying.
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So tragic. Let God’s love reach out through many miraculous ways to touch the families of those affected forever by this event.
Why? When a tragedy of this magnitude happens, that’s one of the first things I struggle with. As if an explanation of motive will make sense out of the chaos.
But you know…it doesn’t.
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Thanks for the reminder!
@Katdish, I’m with you. I often go there as well.
So very sad Pete. I can’t even begin to imagine the extent of their grief. Acts of violence like this I will never been to understand. Lord, please be with all of them!!!
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I posted this on my facebook- that I was horrified between the shooting and then baby Shannon being found in a sealed box under her babysitters bed. Obviously this is why we have to keep reaching out to people- not everyone has a personal relationship with Jesus yet. As a psychology person I just wonder what has to be going through a person’s head for them to get to the point where they say, “I’m going to take a gun to work and shoot as many people as I can.” Wish someone had reached that person before he felt he had to turn to that. Not to mention most of the soldiers harmed were either coming back from a deployment or getting ready for one. I will be praying for Fort Hood, but also all of our soldiers and their families. My friend’s husband, Mike Herrmann, is currently deployed to Afghanistan. His wife and 7 month old daughter are left to wait for his return. War is hard.
Pete ~ Great reminder about choosing how we live!
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My husband is a Chaplain and was called this morning to go to Fort Hood for up to 2 weeks to assist with the crisis. We are praying for all that are involved.
@Christie, we’ll certainly be praying for him as he ministers to those families.
What a senseless and selfish act. Yet we pray for him, his family, and of course all of the victims and their families. My heart breaks to hear of such violence. Are we that desensitized? I read the news articles about the war dead in Iraq and yet I don’t have the same reaction as I did with this horrific shooting in the States. Why is that? Am I becoming that callous to all this shedding of blood, or is it because I leave it all up to our government and military personnel to deal with? It bothers me – and yet I am not alone in how we’ve allowed nearly 10 years of war slip by us with a mediocre response, in my opinion. God, help U.S.
Great point Pete, we do not get to choose.
Which to me takes the fear out of death. I use to be afraid of dying, that I would not get to do things before I died.
But I have shifted from fearing death to fearing life. I am more fearful of God and trying to live my own life then the life that He is calling me to live.
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Our 1 week old church is meeting in a theater in Copperas Cove just minutes from the Ft. Hood main gate. Pray for our worship and that God will use me and my fellow Pastors in the area to speak the words needed to the hearts of many