God help us all ...

I sat and thought about one of the Columbine e-mails that inundated my mailbox and it was the one about someone asking God why, and God was answering how could I help when you kept me out of schools.

They may be able to keep the 10 commandments from being posted, but they can't keep god out when there are people walking around who He lives in.

I saw an interview on TV this morning with the shooter's room mate and he was saying how he tried to reach out and have conversations, but it was getting tiring just being rejected and ignored. Little did he know that it could be possible that if he tried that one more time, he may have broke through. OR, better yet, if EVERYONE would have tried harder to reach out to the lonely, self-isolating freak, then it wouldn't be such a burden for just one person to bear. Who knows if it would have made a difference.

All I know is that it is all of our responsibility to try and reach the lost. Look at what happens when we don't. We sit apathetic to other's needs until it affects us. Until it interrupts our favorite TV show with breaking news. Until it robs us of friends, family and the sense of peace we all need to be able to sleep at night knowing all is well with our world.

We can't fix the world all at once, but we can do our best to reach out to the undesireable, non-faniliar people we are aquainted with and who knows what kind of impace we can make, one person at a time. We may be the one person God uses to prevent the next massacre.

Steve - why are you blaming everyone but Cho? It's the roommate's fault for not trying again to talk to someone who wouldn't talk back? I'm trying to understand your reasoning here.

My main frustration is everyone passing blame to everyone but Cho. He did it. It's HIS fault. No one else's. I'm waiting for the world to let credit lie with those who do wrongdoing and not trying to pass the blame on people who were unfortunate enough to be on the sidelines of something like this.

scott