By now, everyone has heard about what happened at Virginia Tech yesterday. I was brought to tears as I watched the news...thinking "No...Not again!" "How could this happen?" I was up early this morning~just me and Levi~making coffee and thinking about what happened. I thought of how quickly our lives can change...in an instant, really, and we really do not know what tomorrow may hold. This sort of shocked me into realizing that the people God has in my life are so much more important than anything else in this life. I pray that I would not hold grudges, let my anger remain, or fail to tell someone what they mean to me. Let’s not hold back with our love, thoughts, actions and prayers for the people God has in our lives…we don’t know how long we’ll have them. It’s so easy to take the people in our lives for granted…let’s not do that anymore!


I checked my Google Reader this morning and saw a new post on
Girl Talk. They wanted to give some websites to help equip Christians to discuss the problem of evil in the world today. One of the sites was a link to Albert Mohler radio program entitled "Tragedy in Blacksburg: Explaining Evil in a Morally Confused Age. " I listened today and really enjoyed it. Dr. Mohler provides the biblical answer to the question everyone is asking: “How does something like this happen?” I’d encourage you to listen when you have about 30 minutes.

Some things that really stood out to me as I listened were: The fact that we are all sinful, that every intent of the thoughts of our hearts are only evil continually…apart from God’s grace that is. It’s not a question of why did this happen, but why doesn’t it happen more often? I believe the answer to that is God’s GRACE! He is the only thing holding this world together and without His amazing grace the world would literally fall apart.
I read Ephesians 2 today and was blessed…here’s the beginning:

1 And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, 2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, 3 among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.
4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), 6 and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

~Rose