Then I came home and was reading up on some blogs I follow and followed a lead from one blog that led me to a newspaper article and to another and from there I was horrified. "Prosecutors said F**** (age 17) and S*********, 17, stabbed F******* nearly 200 times and used golf clubs and a television set to beat S******* to death." ARE YOU SERIOUS PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! These two 17 year old boys stabbed a woman - that the article says was the mother of a friend, that they called 'mom' - and they stabbed her nearly 200 times! And then they used golf clubs and a TV to beat her young son.
These two 17 year olds are now going to serve a life sentence for this senseless act. How on earth are the children of today getting the idea that murder is a solution for whatever problem is going on?!?!?!?!?! Tonight, Nanci and I were talking about the similarities & differences between Sodom and Gomorra and today's world. And then I read this story that on one hand infuriates me that these 2 people lost their lives senselessly and that 2 children did this to them. On the other hand, I am so terribly sad that these 2 children took the lives of 2 people for what? Nothing that could not have been settled any other way than through violence.
Do I know any of these people involved? No? No.. so why, you might ask, do I care? Well.. I do! I work in an environment where I see children struggling every day - some making it through with no outside problems and some who are drowning. We have one girl in 9th grade - that due to no fault of her own has not been in school since she was in 2nd grade! And in the time that she has been out - her family was caught in a major hurricane that hit a few years ago. If we do not help our children, and those around us, then they will drown and they feel will have no options other than to resort to violence to make it through what they think will be their life.
We need to pray for 1) our children and the children of the world 2) parents of said children 3) the unsaved - we need to show them Jesus and what He can and will do for them 4) the family of the 2 people that lost their lives and 5) these 2 17-year olds that will now spend the rest of their natural lives in prison - surrounded by other offenders, many whom don't care what happens to them.
On a happier note - baby Stellan - who I have been praying for since last summer was able to come home from the hospital today. He was discharged from Boston's Children's Hospital yesterday and flew home today to Minnesota with his mom. He still needs our prayers so let's cover him and his family with prayers that Stellan will be healed and that others will see Jesus through him and his family - who are not afraid to give God the glory.
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