SANDY HOOK AND GOD

He doesn’t live there, in Sandy Hook, Connecticut. He has no residence there: that is not where he lives. He does not speak much in words, no: He never says anything. Yet time and time again we invoke His guidance, ask His blessing, call on Him for answers. We wonder why He wasn’t there in Sandy Hook, Connecticut.

He never answers us, because we never ask the right questions, not you or anyone I know, and certainly not me. We put so much faith in Him, and then all we hear in the end is silence.

Twenty children ages 6 and 7 perished because of a mad man. Twenty children no longer live, laugh or sing, there are no smiles emanating from their faces, only the stark reality that their lives were snuffed out, without reason, senselessly.

Let’s ask the question then, why God would allow this to happen, this killing of innocents?

Maybe the question lies within ourselves: next to the fault. I mean there is fault to go around, no? The gunman was the instrument that did the killing, using a gun as the method. But did he not have the power to do so? Did he not have the OK from society to have the method? Do we not protect his ‘right’ to own the method: the means to execute his horrific will in the Constitution of the United States of America? Do we not wrap ourselves in the flag and say the 2^nd amendment gives him the right, gives you and me the right?

And so we have the “God given right to bear arms” as it is often said. But God didn’t write the U.S. Constitution: he had nothing to do with it.

Newt Gingrich wrote in defense of the 2^nd Amendment: “Every person on the planet has the right to defend themselves from those who would oppress them, exploit them, harm them, or kill them.” I guess Newt meant the 20 children who posed a direct threat to the gunman in the elementary school, or maybe he meant the administrators and teachers also.

So God, allows things to happen, yet we confuse ourselves and pray to him! What are we doing? What are we saying?

No, God doesn’t live in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, never has. God did his job when he created the universe, and he made this world of ours we call Earth. He put us in it and must have thought: “Here, let me see how you do, how you will make sense out of the gift I bestowed on you. Don’t pray to me, and don’t prey on yourselves, but live in love, respect and harmony. I will know”   I know it presumptuous of me to put words in God’s mouth, I don’t mean to, but I truly believe that when it is all said and done, it IS what we do with ourselves that we will be judged.

Why are we selling assault rifles to the general republic, why are we selling automatics so street gangs can randomly shoot at each other and kill innocent bystanders? Why are we protecting these rights that inevitably lead to Sandy Hook? A means of destruction was used to snuff out lives of construction. Construction that would have led to children that would have made their parents happy, proud and loved, and would in turn had achieved the same thing for themselves. It is far more important to protect the rights of people to bare arms, instruments of murder, than to protect the rights of the innocent to live, grow and contribute to society in a positive and perhaps loving way?

We must come to grips with the fact that we are too enmeshed in a wrongful pride in power, militarism, and jingoism: all that lead to hatred of us as a country, and lets us think with guns in our hands as policemen of the world. The US constitution is a living document. That that document in order to live needs to change from time to time,

We have to come to an understanding of who God is. God does not micro-manage the world, he has given us that job to manage ourselves. But we had better do a good job of it, because he will want answers when we are done. You and I, Christian, Jew and Muslim, will all answer to the same God and be accountable in the same way. It will not be because we followed Jesus, Mohammed or the Torah that we are singularly judged, but because of what we did as individuals.