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Wednesday, December 05, 2007

MAN'S INHUMANITY TO MAN..... 

As I sat down to take a break this afternoon I was surprised to see Omaha, NE on the national news stations. It caught my attention right away since I grew up in Omaha and know it very well. The Mall where the shooting took place was almost right at the same location where we lived for a time.

Dad built a small mobile home for us to live in rather than renting an apartment in the middle of town. It was moved to a farm just up the road from the Aksarban Race Track and set in the big yard of an asparagus farm. My brother had to walk a long way to school but I was not in school at the time. Things were not very convenient in those Depression days.

It is rare to have Omaha mentioned at any time in the news business and it’s too bad it had to come this way. I will never understand someone who wants to kill people and randomly finds targets. No reason, no connection, just someone to shoot and kill.

I was in a store one time when armed robbers came in and threatened all of us. It was pretty scary to realize it didn’t matter who you were, if you happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, you could easily become a victim. It all ended without incident, other than scaring the employees and those of us who were shopping at the time………the same couple robbed two other places that weekend and ran out of luck at the third place. They were apprehended and sent back to Kansas City for sentencing.

It seems life is so uncertain these days but then it has always been so. You would think we’d learn how to live along side each other in this age of knowledge and opportunity…but it seems each generation comes along with the same old bag of problems that has cycled on from the time Cain killed Abel.

I am sorry for those killed today and for those who have been injured. Right at the season when man is supposed to reach out and help his fellow man it seems doubly wrong. For the folks on the East and West coasts and the hardships they face at this special time of year, I am sorry for them. Nature seems to be raging in every corner.

This is why men need God. We are totally unable to help any of the offences from man or nature but there is a God who will take pity on those afflicted and make sense of it all. The how’s and why’s are not for us to know, but somehow we become stronger through it all.

I am thankful there was a Christmas and thankful there was an Easter. God sent the best He had to pay our debt…….even though the gift is misused, unappreciated and mocked, He loves us still. That’s the very reason why mankind needs a God…we don’t have the capacity to love others or ourselves without Him.

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