They were innocent children in a secure place and they should have been safe. But the murderer breached the security and violated that safe place and took their lives.
The tragic deaths at Sandy Hook Elementary school in Connecticut are incomprehensible. The grief of those who loved them also beyond what most of us can comprehend. But God tells us to “weep with those who weep” (Romans 12:15) and so, as much as humanly possible, Lutherans For Life weeps with all those affected by this unconscionable attack on the defenseless and vulnerable.
We do not pray that God would help us make sense out of this for it will remain forever senseless. We do pray that God, whose love is not demonstrated in the absence of tragedy, but in a manger and on a cross, would reach out through His people, the Body of Christ, and bring strength and hope to those who weep.