Thursday, December 20, 2012

The Motive?

It is assumed that Adam Lanza, the shooter at Sandy Hook Elementary school, had a dispassionate disconnection with the children he killed.  He did not relate to them, nor have any compassion for them.  Interesting when I hear this.  What if he felt that the world was a miserable place from which he wanted to depart?  It held no hope for him.  His future would be one continual darkness.  Then he went to the school to spare the children having to grow up in this world.  We may never know what snapped in him.  But I would be slow to assume the motive, if there was one.  I have never walked in his shoes.  Regardless, it is all very tragic, and the children and adults are all still very dead.

But what if you lose hope?  Then ever so slowly you will become something or someone that you never thought you would become.  Hope gets us out of bed many a day.  Someone who is slowly destroying themselves is called "Hopeless" right?  A drinking alcoholic is called a "hopeless drunk."  There is a reason for that.

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  1. When hope is slipping away, I know we are supposed to pray and that is a lot; but it doesn't feel like a lot. Part of what makes Mass so powerful is the ritual. Is there a ritual for prayer that will make it feel more powerful?

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