Posted 10:47 pm Saturday, July 28, 2012
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Inspiration , Hope Found Amid Tragic Shooting
Stories about the people who were at the Colorado movie theater shooting last week have been circulating around the news, and many of them are pretty inspiring.
Three young men died when they shielded their girlfriends from the bullets.
One girl refused to leave her best friend’s side after she was shot in the neck and kept her from bleeding to death.
Another girl, shot through the head, is making what her pastor called a “miracle” recovery; it so happened that she was born with an anomaly in her brain that kept the bullet from doing much brain damage.
Stories of heroes and courage and hope always surround a tragedy. To me, they are God’s way of whispering, “I am still here. Even in this, I am with you.”
I’m not one to blame God for tragedy or even say tragedies are part of “God’s plan.” Disasters are part of living on Earth.
“Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself,” C.S. Lewis wrote in his book, “The Problem of Pain.”
Three young men died when they shielded their girlfriends from the bullets.
One girl refused to leave her best friend’s side after she was shot in the neck and kept her from bleeding to death.
Another girl, shot through the head, is making what her pastor called a “miracle” recovery; it so happened that she was born with an anomaly in her brain that kept the bullet from doing much brain damage.
Stories of heroes and courage and hope always surround a tragedy. To me, they are God’s way of whispering, “I am still here. Even in this, I am with you.”
I’m not one to blame God for tragedy or even say tragedies are part of “God’s plan.” Disasters are part of living on Earth.
“Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself,” C.S. Lewis wrote in his book, “The Problem of Pain.”
“His Omnipotence means power to do all that is intrinsically possible, not to do the intrinsically impossible. You may attribute miracles to Him, but not nonsense. There is no limit to His power. If you choose to say, ‘God can give a creature free will and at the same time withhold free will from it,’ you have not succeeded in saying anything about God: meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words, ‘God can.’ It remains true that all things are possible with God: the intrinsic impossibilities are not things but nonentities. It is no more possible for God than for the weakest of His creatures to carry out both of two mutually exclusive alternatives; not because His power meets an obstacle, but because nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God.”
There will always be heartbreaking things that happen in this world, and we will always wonder why God allows them. In the end, you either trust a good, mysterious God is at work in an evil world and will work everything out, or you don’t.
But even in the face of disaster, love always manages to shine through. People risked their lives for each other, and those are the stories that will get told over and over.
There will always be heartbreaking things that happen in this world, and we will always wonder why God allows them. In the end, you either trust a good, mysterious God is at work in an evil world and will work everything out, or you don’t.
But even in the face of disaster, love always manages to shine through. People risked their lives for each other, and those are the stories that will get told over and over.
