TOGETHER

 My initial response to this day.....one of saddest days that our nation has ever seen....was that WE are all in this TOGETHER.....

After the shock wears off, our sentiments of grief to the mourning families will turn to anger and rage....we will want justice....we will want answers...we will demand that our government make a way to ensure that this never happens again......

But that will never bring us the peace that our souls desire.  One thing I am certain of is that this world will never answer our questions and it will never guarantee our security..  I guess to some people that may produce FEAR and ANXIETY and APATHY.....but mostly within in me, I pray it will produce an ever growing COMPASSION for victims of any injustice and an ANTICIPATION for what has been PROMISED and SECURED through the life and death and resurrection of the one true God....Jesus our Messiah. 

We are merely passing through.....journeying for something that we can only glimpse upon while yearning for the fullness of all that we experience.   My prayer will be steadfast.....that a people will be formed in that small town in Connecticut....a people who are poor in spirit....humbled in His presence....receiving of His healing and restoration....that they may be forever changed....that they may be a LIGHT to a nation who has forgotten that our God is the Alpha and the Omega....beginning and the end....that they may confess with their mouths that within His presence DEATH loses it's sting.....because it has already been swallowed up.

May we gaze upon our Creator and worship Him for this beautiful promise.....as we mourn TOGETHER......




"Behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind. 

But be glad and rejoice forever in what I will create, for I will create Jerusalem to be a delight and its people a joy. I will rejoice over Jerusalem and take delight in my people; the sound of weeping and of crying will be heard in it no more.

NEVER again will there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not live out his years; he who dies at a hundred will be thought a mere youth; he who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed. 

 They will build houses and dwell in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.No longer will they build houses and others live in them, or plant and others eat. For as the days of a tree, so will be the days of my people; my chosen ones will long enjoy the works of their hands. 

They will not toil in vain or bear children doomed to misfortune; for they will be a people blessed by the LORD, they and their descendants with them

.Before they call I will answer; while they are still speaking I will hear. 

The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, but dust will be the serpent's food. They will neither HARM nor DESTROY on all my HOLY mountain.....

.....SAYS THE LORD"
-Isaiah 65:17-25