CDsSister's blog: Tragedy in Aurora

<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Tragedy in Aurora Yesterday</strong> 7 20 2012 </p>
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<p>My heart is heavy with the loss of life and the hurt so many experienced.</p>
<p>I pray for the family and loved ones of those who died and were injured.</p>
<p>Aurora and all the metro area are feeling the impact of the evil, senseless acts of troubled soul.</p>
<p>All of us are touched if only tangentially, as the young man visiting on a cross country bike trip was a friend of my church family. </p>
<p>Their daughter was shot in the head and has miraculously been cared for surgically closing the head wound; "miraculously survived the shooting, with 3 gunshot wounds to her armand one bullet that entered through the left side of her nose,  Led by the hands of the Great Physician, the surgeons did amazing work -removing the bullet, clearing out the bone fragments and closing the<br />hole so that her cerebral spinal fluid would not give room for infection to grow."</p>
<p>Our heart cries out "Why does evil exist in our world", "Why do evil men prosper"</p>
<p>I do not have the answers but I do know God is soverign and His heart too is heavy.  So we will cling to  the verses of promise. ”Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight” (<a class="lbsBibleRef" href="http://biblia.com/bible/esv/Proverbs%203.5-6" target="_blank" data-version="esv" data-reference="Proverbs 3.5-6">Proverbs 3:5-6</a>).</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">We pray for all the wounded, that they will be healed.  May those who have suffered mental and spiritual wounds as well.  May they be comforted.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">As our pastor has said;"May Jesus wrap HIS comforting arms around this whole city. We need Him!"</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">We will have a service of Lamentations and Hope on Sunday to seek our Lord and together mourn.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"> It seems our life's garden has been invaded by an evil creature come to steal joy from our hearts.  We will not let him win, we will yet continue to praise the Lord.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">From the Presbyterian service of Lamentation and Hope:</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">O God, deliver our world from violence.<br />Grant, O God, that your holy and life-giving Spirit may<br />so move every human heart, that the barriers which divide us may crumble,<br />suspicions disappear, and hatreds cease, and that, with our divisions healed,<br />we might live in justice and peace; through your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">O God, deliver our world from the violence of indifference to the lives and the suffering of others.<br />God of compassion, you watch our ways, and weave out of terrible happenings wonders of goodness and grace.<br />Surround those who have been shaken by tragedy with a sense of your present love, and hold them in faith.<br />Though they are lost in grief, may they find you and be comforted; through Jesus Christ, who was dead,<br />but lives and rules this world with you.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><br />O God, deliver our world from the violence that destroys lives.<br />We give you thanks, O God, for all who have fought the good fight,<br />finished their race, and kept the faith …<br />Give us the grace to follow them as they followed Christ.<br />Bring us, with them, to those things which no eye has seen, nor ear heard,<br />which you have prepared for those who love you.<br />To your name, with the church on earth and church in heaven, we ascribe all honor and glory,<br />forever and ever.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Amen</p>

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