In The Blessing of His Words

Our nation is one week removed from the unspeakable tragedies which took place in the lovely community of Newtown, Connecticut, just north of Long Island Sound.  Along with a conflicted Mother and five our heroes, twenty little student angels we lost, and the pain continues to be felt across our fruited plain. On this day, the final victims of the massacre will be laid to rest.

In Washington, the effort to utilize this tragedy to attack the Second Amendment, a longtime opponent of the left, began almost immediately.  Progressives in New York could not allow time for grieving before implementing political action. Mayor Michael Bloomberg, flanked by armed security, called for President Obama to go after the guns and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, an aspiring dictator, announced he will outline a gun proposal, where in contrast to the Constitution, "confiscation could be an option."

One would have hoped our elected officials would seek answers to the issues surrounding  this type of violence by engaging in a comprehensive examination of the multitude of issues which may or may not be at play.  No such luck.

The National Rifle Association, of which I am not a member, held a news conference on Friday to in large measure defend themselves from the onslaught of vicious and ignorant attacks they have been hit with.  NRA President Wayne LaPierre spoke candidly, and sensibly, calling for much higher security at perhaps the most important places in America; our schools.

Since the NRA, and the Second Amendment, are targets of the left, all the reasonable comments and ideas put forth by Lapierre was met with skepticism at best by most of Washington, and mocked by the media elite.

If we were engaged in a conversation about what issues lead people to plan and perpetrate these senseless attacks, one topic would be how God has been pushed out of our public discourse, and in particular, the schools.  Becky Kowalski, whose adorable son Chase was killerd in the massacre, has set up The Chase Kowalski Scholarship Fund to among other things, advocate to "bring God back to America."

With the assault, pun intended, on The Second Amendment on the fast track, we must step aside and recognize that government is not the solution to our problems; in many ways, government is the problem.  With the assistance of a complicit media, they continue to use areas of crisis to gain political ground in promotion of ideas limiting freedom and increasing of government control.

A poem written by Darrell Scott, whose lovely daughter Rachel was killed at Columbine in 1999, which he presented to a House Committee, rings loud and true today.

Your laws ignore our deepest needs,
Your words are empty air.
You've stripped away our heritage,
You've outlawed simple prayer.
Now gunshots fill our classrooms,
And precious children die.
You seek for answers everywhere,
And ask the question "Why?"
You regulate restrictive laws,
Through legislative creed.
And yet you fail to understand,
That God is what we need!

The memory of Rachel Joy Scott lives on through Rachel's Challenge, a foundation that among other things, creates safer learning environments and does outstanding work.

We will not find the answers we seek in Washington.  We must look amongst ourselves, and there is hope.  In fact, a message of hope was presented last Sunday by Dr. David Swanson of First Presbyterian Church of Orlando. Please take a listen:



Amongst a national tragedy, America seeks answers and help in understanding how we overcome this darkness.  Help has come, as Our Savior is born.  We must seek counsel, not from an oppressive government, but in individual freedom and the teachings of Christ Our Lord.  Good news has come, in the blessings of His words.