We are in trouble. When our pain goes so deep we are willing to kill our children, and our children are willing to kill one another, we have lost all hope in our future. My heart aches on the first anniversary of Sandy Hook Elementary. Everyone hurt and ranted and raved and blamed each other for another tragedy. 17 people were killed in 22 school shootings this year, including yesterday. There has been a school shooting almost every two weeks this year and nothing has changed.
This week safety doors were installed in my school. Now everyone must come through the office before entering the school. It is designed so the killers have to go through us first. We are supposed to start practicing with the kids how to hold hands and exit the building after a school shooting occurs. How do I explain this to my little ones?
What is our pain that makes us destroy our future? There are as many answers as there are people. We need to move past our biases on guns and freedoms and government involvement and all the other things that keep us from looking at the underlying pain so many of us are carrying. School shootings are just one symptom of the pain. We all want change, but we all keep hoping someone else will save us. Superheroes only exist in comic books and movies. No one is going to save us. We have to save ourselves. We have to save each other. We have to stop finding reasons to hate our differences and love one another in the truest sense.
This week safety doors were installed in my school. Now everyone must come through the office before entering the school. It is designed so the killers have to go through us first. We are supposed to start practicing with the kids how to hold hands and exit the building after a school shooting occurs. How do I explain this to my little ones?
What is our pain that makes us destroy our future? There are as many answers as there are people. We need to move past our biases on guns and freedoms and government involvement and all the other things that keep us from looking at the underlying pain so many of us are carrying. School shootings are just one symptom of the pain. We all want change, but we all keep hoping someone else will save us. Superheroes only exist in comic books and movies. No one is going to save us. We have to save ourselves. We have to save each other. We have to stop finding reasons to hate our differences and love one another in the truest sense.
