The horrific event that unfolded yesterday in Newtown is being reported on with so much guess work in the absence of facts. Reporters are sent to scrounge up any tidbit of information they can find. I saw one woman on CNN who'd known the shooter when he was 8 or 9 and hadn't seen him since. Can her perspective really add value to the conversation?
Over this week new details will surface, some true, some not. We are insatiable when it comes to wanting to know something. We are yearning for that piece of information that will make it all make sense. "Oh, okay, THAT'S why he did it!" We want to understand how a human being can kill children, his mother and anyone who gets in the way.
The Truth is we will never know what was in that young man's mind. We can't know how he experienced the world or why his pain was so great or how it made sense to him to inflict pain on others as relief to his own pain.
What we do know is all those who have made their transition have gone on to a different experience of life. Life does not end, it transforms itself. And the grace of God allows those, who have left loved ones behind, to look forward and not so much backwards. The grief is felt by those left here without their child, sibling, parent, grandparent, friend.
I pray that the world can wake up to another way of being. That those who hurt can be identified and given help. That guns will be taken out of the hands of the average American. I pray that the "New" in Newtown will mean something will change and we will stop doing the same over and over.
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