Pray, Pray and Pray some more

Let's get one thing straight.  God did not allow the Connecticut shootings.  Satan did this using a living, breathing creation of God.  His creation gave into evil, sin and darkness.  It was God's creation who gave into this darkness and it was he holding Satan's hand that shot and killed those innocent adults and those babies.

It is too easy for us to blame the guns.  That is just too easy.   I refuse to take the easy way through this grief.  The blame lies at Satan's feet and solely at his feet.  I refuse to let him off the hook and blame a stupid piece of metal.  Satan moved into the weak mind of one of God's weakest creations and created this massacre.  If guns were not available he would have chosen another method of destruction.  He does it everyday through greed, drugs, addiction, gluttony, insert your favorite sin here....

Removing the second amendment will not stop this nonsense.  Legal or illegal someone wanting a gun will find a gun.  Pray. Pray. Pray some more and then keep praying.  I am praying for the Lord's peace to wrap itself around our country and our world in addition to the families of the innocents.  The deaths are being felt far outside the boundaries that rural Connecticut town.  Hearts are breaking around this country and our world.

We must come together together and ask for the strength of Lord's love that will deliver us from this tragedy.  That's right, we ask for the Lord's grace to see us through and receive the blessings of peace and strength He will surely give.  If it sounds too easy, I offer this:  when I need grace, strength and love to fill my heart I usually need it right then and so I ask for it.  The Lord listens and responds.  We are not meant to jump through hoops to receive the blessings He wants to bestow on his believers.  He is eager to give them, we have to only ask.  It is that simple.  He did the hard work for us long before we arrived in His universe so it would be that simple.  Just accept it, shut up and pray.

Pray for the teachers, the community, the parents, the siblings, the administrators all of who will wonder if they did enough today.  They did.  Pray for our country that will further be politically divided on the issue of gun control.  We most definitely will.  Pray for the parents across the globe who are hurting on behalf the parents who lost their children today whether they were an adult or a small child.  We all are.
Pray for the unbelievers of this world who will do all they can to shift the focus away from the evil of Satan and cloud the issue with minutia.  The media is included in that need for prayer.
Just stop and pray.  Hug your babies, then pray with them.
May God bless us all.