As most of you know, we attended a wedding a couple of weeks ago in Blacksburg, Virginia. During our short stay in the area, Gary and I drove around the campus of Virginia Tech before departing. I've only visited VT once before and that was years ago when a high school friend of mine was a student and invited me to spend a weekend with her. Of course, the campus has changed greatly, but it is a beautiful college located in the mountains of Virginia.
As we drove through the campus we came upon the memorial built for the 32 individuals senselessly killed by a young Korean man who had extensive mental issues. As we walked around the memorial reading the names of each person etched into stone on individual pieces of what they term "Hokie Stone", I couldn't help but question why did this happen? I'm sure I'm not the first and probably will not be the last to ask this question that took the lives of these 32 students and faculty who began, what they believed to be, an ordinary day on April 16, 2007.
This subject is the core of the devotional thought for next week which will be posted on Sunday morning. Relating this issue to the brevity of our earthly lives, it still serves as a stark reminder that life on earth is only a vapor that appears for a while and then it is gone, as the book of James comments. We need to make every minute of every day count, friends. We never know when the existence of our earthly vapor will no longer will viable and we'll be called to our eternal home. Do you know your destination? God bless, my friends.
As we drove through the campus we came upon the memorial built for the 32 individuals senselessly killed by a young Korean man who had extensive mental issues. As we walked around the memorial reading the names of each person etched into stone on individual pieces of what they term "Hokie Stone", I couldn't help but question why did this happen? I'm sure I'm not the first and probably will not be the last to ask this question that took the lives of these 32 students and faculty who began, what they believed to be, an ordinary day on April 16, 2007.
This subject is the core of the devotional thought for next week which will be posted on Sunday morning. Relating this issue to the brevity of our earthly lives, it still serves as a stark reminder that life on earth is only a vapor that appears for a while and then it is gone, as the book of James comments. We need to make every minute of every day count, friends. We never know when the existence of our earthly vapor will no longer will viable and we'll be called to our eternal home. Do you know your destination? God bless, my friends.
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