It's hard to believe that this tragic event happened 10 years ago now. If you're a junior higher you may be too young to remember this. I, however, remember it as if it were yesterday. I was a sophomore at Bethel College. I came back to my apartment between my classes that day, sat down and turned the TV on. All of a sudden there was a 'breaking news' story on just about every channel. News of a student hostage situation in Littleton, Colorado. I found myself glued to the TV awaiting more updates. I',m pretty sure that I even skipped the rest of my classes that day because I wanted to hear things as they happened. 13 people were dead at the end of this unbelievable event. Not including these two students:
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the shooters of the Columbine High School Massacre. Looking at their pictures it's hard to imagine they would have that inside of them to be able to do. It reminds me that we don't know the hurt of each person we interact with. The people that we walk the halls with, eat lunch in the lunch room with, have a locker next to . . . what were they feeling inside. What were they hurting from? How different would their life have been if they had Christ in their life?
As we've been talking over the last few days with our 30-Day Challenge to Jr. Highers I thought this was something worth mentioning. We've been talking about judging and criticizing others. I wonder what things were said to these two students that pushed them over the edge, that made them feel so hurt, so alone, so empty that they couldn't reach out for help. That the only way they knew how to release their feelings of anger, depression and rage were by bring bombs and guns to their high school coming up with a plan of how they could kill some of their classmates.
Before you judge or say hurtful words to someone else, remember that Christ still died for them...that God still created them...that God still loves them. Perhaps if we thought more about those things . . . horrific events like the Massacre at Columbine might never have happened.
1 comment:
I believe that this is true instead of hurting someone make them feel better about themselves so this will never happen again. But... we cant do this all of the time but we can at least try instead of just taking the "easy" way out.
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