STEEPED IN A MISTY MORN OF MUSINGS...: December 2012

Friday, December 14, 2012

WITH HEARTS THAT ARE HEAVY, WE COLLECTIVELY CRY OUT,

“ABSALOM, O ABSALOM!”

2 Samuel 18:33 And the king was deeply moved and went up to the chamber over the gate and wept. And as he went, he said, “O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would I have died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!”

He heals the broken hearted and binds up their wounds…

[Please heal us, O Lord]

Psalm 147:3

Is there no hope for the soul of this profligate young man? He died in his iniquity: but is it not possible that he implored the mercy of his Maker while he hung in the tree? And is it not possible that the mercy of God was extended to him? And was not that suspension a respite, to the end that he might have time to deprecate the wrath of Divine justice?

Psalm 6:2 Be merciful to me, LORD, for I am faint; O LORD, heal me, for my bones are in agony.

Psalm 41:4 "O LORD, have mercy on me; and heal me, for I have sinned against you."

We plead so grievously : How many more? ...How many more?

[Absalom...O, Absalom]

L.P.-G. 12/14/2012

The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting occurred on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut, United States, when 20-year-old Adam Lanza shot and killed 26 people, including 20 children between six and seven years old, and six adult staff members. Earlier that day, before driving to the school, he shot and killed his mother at their Newtown home. As first responders arrived at the school, Lanza committed suicide by shooting himself in the head.