“In those days there was no king
in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.”[1]
God’s heart is breaking and His
Spirit is grieved over the tragedy and chaos this nation has experienced just
in 2018. Some say from January 1st to February 14th there
has been eighteen school shootings. Snopes website, quoting The Washington Post
says, “No, only five”[2].
But even one is too many. My
heart also breaks, not merely for the Parkland, Florida school shooting victims
and their families, but for every school shooting victim since the first,
Columbine.
Last week this insanity came closer to home. A
Jackson Middle School student shot himself in the school restroom and he has
now succumbed to his wounds. At first the shooting was thought to be
accidental, but later being labeled a suicide.
Sadly, it seems the panic arising from the
Jackson Middle School shooting may have spurred a social media threat to at
least one of our local schools causing several schools to go on lock-down. My
twelve-year-old granddaughter told me the day after this shooting, she was
afraid to go to school. The Jackson boy wasn’t even in high school yet – he was
a seventh grader just like my granddaughter. These shooters are getting younger
and younger.
