March 25th, 2021: When Does Madness End?
Once again, we had to deal with the unexplainable madness on Monday in Boulder, Colorado, as a shooter went on a rampage and killed ten people, including a police officer. What happens to the US as these mass killing incidents have become too regular.
Many people inside King Soopers at the time were waiting for their Covid-19 vaccine shots. What an agony? Some of the staff, who were giving these shots, were hurt by the shooter. What happened to this person who committed this senseless act? The answer confirms our human brokenness.
It could be that he lives in loneliness, and life has deprived him of the reality of love. He has learned to hate and demonize others. He could only see what he believes that he had the right to eliminate and destroy.
It could be that a victim became an offender. We see that so often in our society as we fail to engage people who need help to deal with the consequences of their brokenness. It doesn't justify anything. It just confirms that evil deeds have ways of multiplying themselves.
It could be that hope is an illusion and joy is an impossible dream for many people. Hopelessness can take control of our day, and we then enter the darkness of tomorrow. So shooting others might be an invitation to be shot. Life then disappears, and death stands in its place.
You can tell that I am trying to make sense out of what happened and fail miserably. I listened to people who killed before. The only way I can sustain myself is to believe that God embraces their miseries and loves them. What we have left now is an angry nation that requires deep healing.
Isaiah 9: 2
"The people who walk in darkness
Will see a great light;
Those who live in a dark land,
The light will shine on them."
John 1: 5
"The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it."
