receive the witness

 Fairlawn West community...

 

I have turned off much of the media coverage of the Virginia Tech killings.  I am appalled at the push they are on to assign blame and to pry into the lives of a people who are in shock and initial grief.  Where is the boundary between news coverage and voyeurism!?

 

The witness is from pieces of news I have heard from the Virginia Tech community itself.  As in the time of grief for any of us, we need to give space.  But what we are hearing from that community is a focus on being a community for one another.  Not feeding the frenzy of the profit seeking news media (and possibly a voyeuristic portion of the wider world.)

 

In a time when there are comments about how young people today are not cut from the same cloth of their elders...notice how the students of VT and of a wider circle via the internet are more focused on the present, the love, the community and the healing.  That is the witness to others of us.  God is speaking.

 

Grace and peace,

David Loar