I couldn't sleep last night. I kept thinking about the families, the community and the brokenness that is happening in Orlando this morning. About mothers and fathers who lost their child, about a community who is shaken and scared and about a country who is so far gone that we use a tragedy for political arguments. I didn't even hear about the shooting until 5 pm yesterday evening. I had checked all my social media earlier that day and NO ONE was talking about it. In fact I heard more about a gorilla being shot at a zoo than I did about 50 people being murdered and 53 more injured. This seriously can't be the world we are living in? We can't seriously care more about animals than we do people.
The verse I keep seeing tied to this event is Romans 12:15 "weep with those who weep". In my Bible it falls under a category titled "christian ethics". To my knowledge that means it falls under the behaviors we Christians should be doing. When it says "weep with those who weep" it WASN'T A SUGGESTION. It didn't say weep with those who are like you, believe what you do, and believe in Jesus. It just simply said weep. I know it happened to the LGBT community and the church usually does an awkward moon walk out of the conversation. But this is a topic not up for debate. People were killed, its heart breaking, so mourn. Jesus ran to the brokenhearted. I want to look like Jesus in this.
It took less than 12 hours after the shooting for people to mention gun laws and ISIS. I understand that people are wanting answers. We are all just trying to make senses of what happened. But it doesn't make any sense. I feel like we forgot to mourn and jumped straight to political argument. The things that I have read are political parties calling out other political parties on what they said after the fact. But I feel like we are forgetting the lives taken and the lives forever scarred by this event. Let's not let our anger overshadow others' grief.
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