I just finished work and finished a post about Ash Wednesday and Valentine’s day and opened facebook to discover that we’ve had yet another school shooting in our country.

On Valentines day.

I don’t have any words.  No great words of wisdom or fabulous spiritual reflections on this. 

We are a society steeped in violence.  Our speech is violent, our streets are violent, our playgrounds are violent, our homes are violent, our corporations are violent, our sports are violent, our economics are violent, our politics are violent. 

World dominance and super-power status is the goal.

Power and control is king.

…. and kids get shot at school. 

Regardless of all the twists and turns my spiritual path has taken, I keep returning to Jesus.  The prince of peace.  A man who taught non-violence.  Who taught us to love our enemies, to turn the other cheek.  A man who taught us that if we are asked for our coat, to give our shirt also and if we are asked to walk one mile, walk two.  A man who said that power comes from serving others and joy comes through suffering.

A man whose example was to die rather than to meet violence with violence. 

That’s the kind of god I believe in. 

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