I sometimes can not find words enough for the moment. Yesterday, another young man went insane and killed his fellow students at a school. It was not a High School but a university and the one my husband attended for a short time before he met me. For me, the shock was magnified,some because it was place that held a special place in my memories. My memories of Virgina are all of a place I love intensely.
I do not understand evil and the desire to kill others other than war or in self defense. But evil walked the halls of V. T. yesterday morning. What makes a young man with everything to live for believe that his problems are so important that he has a right to kill others during a Rage? Himself, I might understand, for we all know despair off and on in our lives until we grow spiritually mature, but destroying life that is not your own makes no sense and is a terrible sin and the worse possible karma a person can possibly inflict on their soul. Had no one ever gotten through to him, speaking of the sacredness of all life? Had no one told him he was not the center of all existence that he did not matter more than others? Had no religion or philosophy touched his heart and awakened in him a love for all of mankind? Obviously not, madness and hate, evil and something even worse than evil, possessed him till the end.
Christ warned us if we do not fill ourselves up with good things : with love, mercy, God's presence, spirit, soul and the desire for service, evil will enter in and make its home in us and it will rule us and destroy our lives.
We can be possessed by Good or by evil, it is our choice.
I pray for all those who died and who survived, for the families and friends - for our country and for our race - the human race - for, though today, it is acceptable to break us into smaller and smaller races and minority groups - we are BUT ONE RACE - the HUMAN RACE , we are one race, spiritually and physically for the few differences - hair, eyes, skin color, place of origin matters not one little bit.
WE are ONE and we each have the potential for great good or great evil ... each of us can choose to do great good or great evil - life is a choice - no amount of suffering, no amount of prejudice, no amount of need, no amount of isolation drove that young man to do what he did because millions of young men and women have suffered through the centuries the same things he suffered (or may have suffered.) and they chose LIFE , not DEATH and as God says - Choose life. Choosing life, choosing to love life and to love others, to love ourselves (would anyone who loved themselves decide to kill themselves in such a horrific manner?) and to Love God, whatever we conceive Him/Her/It to be and to be a positive force in the world for Good.
Thus is all the law, commandments & sacraments, it is all that is that is required of a human being. Nothing matters more than to choose Life and Love.
Let us remember never to despair. Let us, each grow in hope and trust that mankind will survive, endure and evolve into more than it is right now - we are meant to be here and we are evolving. Trust, hope and love and the greatest is love.
So, please, let us choose life, light, love, mercy and kindness. Let us remember what we have in common and concentrate on these things and not what is different. The blood that flows through my veins is the same as that which flows through yours. The Prana that flows through me flows through all things, including all living creatures. The message of all mysticism the world over is Oneness of everyone and everything.
We are one people, one race. Let us, each, strive to bring more light and hope into the world and to reject evil, hate, egotism & materialism in all its multitudinous forms.
I would particularly like to mention Liviu Librescu a surviver of the holocaust who gave his life so others might live, holding the door against evil as his students jumped out the windows. He is in Eternity, tonight, standing before God with love and joy in his heart, for He knew the truth of life and is blessed with this sacrifice of this one life. I would wish, given the same choices, that I would have the courage to stand and hold the doors so others might live even if it meant that I would die. That is what I have been working for all my life - to have courage when faced with death.
May God bless Mr. Librescu's soul for all eternity!
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