“When I was a younger man, I tended to skim over imprecatory Psalms because I felt like I couldn’t identify with them. After all, I didn’t have any real “enemies” in 2009. The secular college students around me were just “misinformed.” If anything, I internally felt like they didn’t quite fit with the rest of the Bible. But God has a way of orchestrating things so that His Word makes perfect sense.”
(David Harris – TruthScript) Yesterday afternoon, while preparing to administer a quiz at one of the Tennessee schools where I work, my phone began to buzz incessantly. With a glance at my notifications, I experienced immediate deja vu, remembering all the buzzing that my phone received the evening of July 13, 2024, after President Trump was nearly assassinated at Butler, PA. Charlie Kirk had been shot at a campus event in Utah. Over the next hour, I stole glances at my phone, begging God to speed up the class so I could find out what was going on.
After the students left, I started to catch up on the details, which at the time indicated that he had been killed. Now that has been confirmed.
The tears came unexpectedly – something I believe many experienced today. Weeping. Weeping for Charlie, for the United States, for everyone he represents, and most of all, for his beautiful wife and precious little daughters. I’m very close in age to Charlie, my wife is very close to his wife’s age, and we have daughters the same age as his two children.
It’s impossible not to see yourself in such a horrific event and immediately think of the horror of your sudden, violent death plastered across millions of phone screens. The complete devastation to your family. To have that be the defining moment of their existence. Replayed over, and over, and over, and over.
Of course, the next feeling was absolute wrath. A look over social media indicated I wasn’t alone. To have this on the heels of Iryna Zarutska’s shocking murder on a Charlotte train is akin to throwing gasoline on an already out-of-control brush fire.
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