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We are in shock over yesterday’s senseless killings at Virginia Tech and our hearts are heavy with grief for the victims and their families and loved ones. We are a peaceful and trusting society unable to comprehend the what and why, yet we want to understand. It is in our nature to make some sense of it. Yet there is no making sense of it. It is just that; senseless.
So we grieve and we pray. And we try to understand, for without understanding we cannot hope to find closure. But for now we grieve for the families mourning their supreme loss.
Anger will follow and some will try to place blame, another part of our nature. But we must remember that this was a random, unpredictable act.
I’m stunned about what happened at Virginia Tech. I want to say something profound or moving or helpful, but I just don’t have the words.