I’ve never had to write a post in response to a tragedy.  I’ve been blessed with lots of great things in my life over the past few months, but I can’t live in a bubble and believe that goodness abides in everyone’s life.  Today Virginia Tech experienced the effect of someone who did not have goodness in their life: two shootings on the Tech campus took the lives of over 30 people – possibly the largest university shooting ever.  It’s unfathomable, even to someone who believes that everything happens for a reason, to find an easily explainable reason for such heartless violence.  I can’t put myself in the shoes of the victims, the survivors, the friends and family of those victims, and especially the shooter himself – I can’t imagine what they were thinking and feeling.  Of course, the inevitable question asked is Why?  To Tech students, this day will be seen as the Virginia Tech 9/11 – and so far, no one has been able to give an answer to that question.

The press hasn’t released all the details and probably doesn’t have all the details to give, but I can tell already that the university is completely rocked by what’s happened today.  As one person, I don’t know what I can do to help with a hurt this large, but I can imagine there will be a widespread response to this event.  I just hope that the overall message will be that of unity and healing and turning to God and each other, and not of bitterness and wariness.  Above all, I know God has complete control over the situation, and we need to bathe the victims’ family and friends in some serious prayer right now.