Hello my dear friends. You might want to think twice before you follow me because I don't always know where I am going, but I would love to have your company.
When they left for the movie that night they didn't know that the "Joker" in the movie house was going to be real. He in all his brilliance was led to commit a horrific crime as the fictional "Joker" has been known to do. There was no real Batman to bring him to his knees before he was able to cause the terrible pain of that night on 7/20/2012 in Aurora ,Colorado, USA
Act one was indeed that of true insanity, a scene that left real bleeding hearts, some victims slumped in their seats and others that lie scattered along with their popcorn, and caused the real pain that one could only imagine.
A young couple with an infant in their arms believed they would have a night out before she was due for the next feeding, instead they held her limp body to their broken hearts. And too, the pain of a six year old son taken so cruelly from his parents. Many teens helped to drag each other out of the theater as their blood soaked lives took a twisted turn, taking their innocence along with it. Families and friends then spent the night outside of the theater sobbing as they awaited the final and worse pain that indeed their loved ones were part of this horror story,and part of the crime scene being investigated through out the night. So too we sob in our hearts with them for their loss, and we can only pray that they will be comforted in their grief .
Our God wants us to be merciful during these times and to forgive even what seems unforgivable, for us the common man, who among us can muster up the strength to be able to do so at this time ? Is even the" Joker" in pain too ?
The brilliance of his mind that took him through grad school could have brought so much to all of us as a physician, then suddenly it became one of distortion. Replaced now by a grandiose fictional character of fear and violence instead of the healer he had hoped to be.
In addition to the despair his parents, and friends must feel, he like so many others that are led to these acts of violence; has once again shaken us to our very core. Another reality check on just how fragile our minds are. Once again we are reminded that even the brightest among us can drift into the unknown areas of darkness and despair.
We can only hope and pray that families and friends can intervene in time to save others from the horrors of the troubled mind.
The fourth of July is here again. But something feels different this year. Gone are the spontaneous celebrations of another summer beginning, another parade and cook outs that filled our bodies and souls with good food and friends. Suddenly when we least expect it, life as we knew it has taken a new course.
It seems that we spend most of our time censoring our behavior. Taking on instead political correctness, a behavior that now stunts our enthusiasm, dilutes our spontaneity and for many leaves us feeling a great void in our hearts.
As we stumble a while trying to regroup and regain some sibilance of control, we try to separate those heart felt beliefs that we have, from those that are just part of our present day. There are changes going on in our society over which we have no control, changes that we will most likely have to acquiesce .
We are standing in the middle of a crossroad. Neither here or there, but somewhere in between our present and our future, not unlike everyday is but with a bolder and radical drift away from the solid foundation we have built on in the past.
"It's a small world after all " rings painfully true and not just a childhood memory from the worlds Fair. Will we ever become stronger because we share our strengths or will we succumb to the greed and jealousy of our human nature ? We are all here on earth for a very short time and we are merely guests on this blessed land. Outsiders will twist our pictures to fit their albums and we can only pray that we will be recognizable.
It is up to each individual to decide for themselves what values they will hold on to, and what they are willing to let go of in our ever evolving society. History takes its own journey and ready or not we can travel with it with hopes to see a new light where there was once darkness. Or we can choose to add our own light with our own candles and maybe even light a candle for someone else.
