Week from hell

Life seems very stretched these days. I feel like there are nails scratching on a blackboard all over the world. Recent events - three shootings in three schools - leave me numb, tired, scared, mad, disgusted. What is happening? Why is this happening? Who are these men and why are they choosing to take their rage out on innocent school girls?

Is it a plea for recognition? Are they wanting to go down famous for something?

II Timothy 3 warns of difficult times in the last days. Men will be "lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God...."

In a counterpoint to the cowardly killings of the 5 Amish girls, it is now reported that the oldest of the girls requested the coward to kill her first - obviously hoping to save the younger ones. Amazing. Ok, so like the Amish, I need to forgive this guy. But that doesn't change the fact that this was one event inspired by nothing less than absolute evil.

We do live in perilous times.