Audrey sends this by email:
"Did you see the front page of the Daily News today? There was a man shot on Bailey. It was about 6 feet from my car! The police came and roped off the area etc. and we were on lockdown until 3:40 or so. When my kids heard the shots they asked me what it was. I said maybe fireworks! They were very calm and played quietly in the room having a marvelous time! I praise God for His protection to all the kids at school and for my car. No bullet holes :) ! "This is the article from the Whittier Daily News by Staff Writer Sandy Mazza, click here.
Jeanne Brees, above, puts pressure on the gunshot wound of Ronald Rawley, 51, of Whittier. Rawley, who was walking on Bailey Street in Whittier, was shot after a verbal altercation with a passing car, police said. (Photos by Keith Durflinger / Staff)
that's rather frightening. what a strange way to get your point across. usually my homeboys don't shoot me when we argue. i'm thankful that audrey and her class were (mostly) safe from trauma.
ReplyDeleteI did read that article and thought of the school in gneral but didn't realize that it was right outside your room Audrey.. God continually protects us even when we don't know the exact way that harm may come from. I just assumed that it was more uptown.
ReplyDeleteThank God all are safe.
yeah, we who live in uptown are wont to savagery.
ReplyDeleteYou could all be living in the small town safety of Placerville where a crazed man shot and killed his son, shot his "estranged" wife 5 times and then hid out in the wooded area around here for 3 days the week after Christmas. Locked myself in for three days while the helicopters circled looking for him. Of course, the benefit to a small town is you usually actually know the victims. The names escape me now, but I know David and Rob know the kid who was killed. Ended up with th man shooting himself in the head in front of two sheriff's deputies when they cornered him.
ReplyDeleteClearly our human condition, its propensity for evil, for wonton savagery, and the fear generated by all of that is not limited to geography, socio-economic position or any other external indicator.
ReplyDeleteAs karma leads us to believe that the cycle is un-ending, let's call for grace to interrupt that cycle--common grace that is imbued by our common createdness in the image of God--and special grace of divine intervention to bust open our mean world to introduce a new understanding of faith, hope, and love.
Thanks robage and beth for sparking my little homily here.
"Karma?" What did you mean, Glen?
ReplyDeleteKarma (n) is the philosophy that says what goes around comes around. According to the Encarta® World English Dictionary (© 1999) the Hindu and Buddhist philosophy according to which the quality of people’s current and future lives is determined by their behavior in this and in previous lives (2) the atmosphere radiated by a place, situation, person, or object (informal), (2) destiny or fate in general
ReplyDeleteKarma leads to a cycle of violence. One bad act deserves another. An argument leads to a gun shot, et cetera. Grace intervenes and interrupts that cycle with forgiveness.
That is what I meant. Thanks for asking.