Excellent post. Thank you. For most of us it is so difficult to pull our thoughts together after such a devastating event, and separating those thoughts from our emotions is nearly impossible. This piece is very helpful.
Thanks for posting.
Our hearts break with sorrow, along with those of the parents, grandparents, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles and loved ones of those precious 20, and with regret for the unrealized potential achievements and joys they might have brought to the world.
Let us use this time for deep reflection and soul-searching on how our society has failed to preserve our Declaration of Independence's assertion that individuals' lives and liberties are "endowed by their Creator," and, because of that "self-evident" truth, are unalienable, and cannot be "disjoined," only "destroyed."
Let us introduce into the "national discussion"--insisted upon by our President--the very real fact that only 7 to 8 years ago these little innocent ones were in the safety of their mothers' wombs--invisible to the world, and visible only to their Creator. There, they possessed the same attributes and potential which is mourned today.
Because they were allowed to continue their development through the birthing process, they became the named children whose memory is honored and treasured by all. Long before they were named by parents, however, according to the same scriptural sources cited in Sunday evening's Memorial Service, they were known by their Creator.
A nation whose very reason for Constitutional protection for life and liberty lies in the ideas understood and expressed in the document of 1776 simply must be called upon to re-examine that unique idea at a time like this! To do less is to dishonor the loss of these children's lives, as well as to ignore another great national tragedy--our failure to respect life at all of its stages of development and/or physical decline.
"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them." - Thomas Jefferson
Thank-you for the wisdom you posted. I wish there was more of it!
Thank-you....Ravi always says it well.
Best words I’ve heard or read yet on the Newtown horror.....
Ravi is one of the clearest, most brilliant Christian thinkers alive....
Thank you for posting.....