Beyond Mere Words

I feel broken. I don't know if there is any way to look at what happened in Virginia and not feel broken. I feel the brokenness of our times. The repercussions of that brokenness have now been felt directly by the people of the Virginia Tech community, and more broadly by anyone with a soul.
When I speak about extending and renewing God's covenant that can sound very abstract. It can sound like something overly spiritual and mystical. Perhaps it is. Maybe the language of spirituality, religion, and theology has led us astray. As the most religiously Christian industrial nation, perhaps our religion has led us astray because we are also the most violent of all the modern nations.
When I speak of a mission to extend or restore the covenant I am trying to talk about how it is that we live together. I am trying to talk about how we reach the alienated, the isolated, and the outsider. I am trying to talk about how our relationship as a human community would not let someone with known mental health issues buy guns. I am trying to talk about how our connection with one another might have a way of bringing grace and justice to the mentally ill, before they act out.
It is an incredible understatement to say that something went wrong. How wrong is beyond the power of mere words to describe. Hopefully the grace and justice that is beyond mere words will bring some healing, hope, and wholeness into a terrible situation.
VTech, our prayers our with you.