We are never broken...

I was driving back to my hometown this morning for a family Christmas gathering and I just happened to have some old CD’s in my car. So I pulled one out and started listening to the songs from my childhood days. After listening to a few CD’s, I came across one made by a friend. The 10^th song on the disc was one of my favorite songs in middle school. As I started to sing along, remembering all of the words although I hadn't heard the song in years, the lyrics hit me like a train running at full speed.

I, along with many others across the nation, have been reflecting on the tragic events that occurred on Friday morning in Connecticut. What happened that day, along with many other recent events, have left me questioning what has happened to the world in which we live. How broken and evil can this place be that someone can walk in to a school and gun down twenty innocent, precious little children?

The song title is “Hands” by Jewel and the lyrics below dug into the pit of my stomach as I began singing along.

“I won’t be made useless. I won’t be idle with despair.

I will gather myself around my faith for light does the darkness most fear.

We will fight, not out of spite. For someone must stand up for what’s right. Cause where there’s a man who has no voice, there ours shall go singing…

In the end, only kindness matter.

I will get down on my knees, and I will pray.

…We are never broken.”

So although there are many questions, many pains, many heartbreaks in many people around the world and especially in the lives of the parents who lost their children that day, we are never broken.

The only encouragement we have is that this place in which we live in is only temporary and all of this evil, hostility, horror, and wickedness will one day be gone. And we, along with those beautiful little children, will be in a magnificent place forevermore where evil will never win again!

Pray for Newton, Connecticut and especially for those families as they try to piece their lives back together.