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Sad reality sometimes...


I just received an email this morning for our college professional development workshops.  Among the list of course offered some include:  
  • Unlawful Harassment Prevention for Higher Education Staff
  • Preventing Discrimination and Sexual Violence: Title IX and the SaVE Act for Faculty and Staff
and most terrifying ...
  • Active Shooter Response for Higher Education
It's not uncommon to have classes such as these, but  I have been thinking much about the innocence lost and how the world is so very dark, cold and dangerous.  

We have to prepare ourselves for just about anything and the sad reality is at times our world is extremely dreadful.  

A few weeks ago, my daughter watched a show with my husband and I, which ended on a very twisted and dark resolution.  It wasn't the happy-go lucky ending we had thought it would be.  It left you feeling melancholy and somewhat icky.  It was a moment that I thought to myself, I can never take that back from her mind.  She can't "unknow" that those terrible things that really do happen in life.  She is a sweet young lady full of love and grace and that show was nothing of that.  We certainly would have never let her watch it had we known that the outcome was so grim.  

 Yet, she now knows a little better that our world is full of sin and sinners.  

We live in such a sad reality here, where I have to sometimes wonder if a armed gunman would show up at my school and shot people.  It's happened all around the world, it could certainly happen here.

 It's sad to think that innocent people are way too often exposed to harassment and abuse: physical, mental and even sexual.  It's even sad to think that we have to be taught how to recognize these things.  

 Fact is our world/ our reality is many times dark, cold and dangerous.  

 I can't imagine those people who have absolutely no hope in what is to come.  I know that all of these trials, tribulations and terror isn't the end of this story.  We have the hope of a savior.  Someday soon, he will rescue us from this dark pit of sin and sorrow. 

 It's important to me, to know that and teach my children that even in the darkest hours, when all seems lost -- we have hope and can find joy in the arms of Jesus.    It's amazing how God reminds us of his grace.
  

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