Sometimes I wish news stories didn’t come with video footage.

I watched the CNN Pakistan school shooting video.  

Remember that line in Hotel Rwanda?

After Jack films the genocide all around them in Africa:

Paul: I am glad that you have shot this footage and that the world will see it. It is the only way we have a chance that people might intervene. 

Jack: Yeah and if no one intervenes, is it still a good thing to show? 

Paul: How can they not intervene when they witness such atrocities? 

Jack: I think if people see this footage they’ll say, “Oh my that’s horrible,” and then go on eating their dinners.




Obviously, we’ve all had a response like that.  When we are exposed to so much worldwide violence in an instant, we cannot emotionally invest in it all.

But it makes me wonder about my reaction as a Believer.  I want my gut instinct to be prayer.  It will take some time or a personality transplant before I completely release it all to Him in that moment and never ponder it again.  But as I ponder, I want my hands open.

A friend in the throes of working with the foster care system said once that trusting God right now with her children means “Entrusting them to a Trustworthy God.”

Grief is natural.  I hope my children grieve when they see or hear about heinous acts of hatred.  I never want them to be accustomed to it.  It is not the way things were meant to be.

But I hope the prayers that rise from their souls and my soul come from a heart that knows that it knows He is Trustworthy.