Praying for Boston

Vivid memories of hours spent outside in elementary school due to bomb threats.  As a child raised in the south I lived a sheltered "safe" life...never was there a real bomb or shooting incident.  Besides the occasional disruption to education, there were really no other big disturbances. 

While following the news today of the Boston Marathon terror... I can't help but think how times have changed.  It breaks my heart that what should be a "fun" celebratory day- Patriot's Day- in Boston turned into a horrific day that will go down in the history books.  What should have been a way to remember the 26 lives lost in Sandy Hook now is linked with more tragedy. We can all speculate who is behind this and the motive but ultimately... we need to fall on our faces before our divine Creator and ask for His healing... 

¹³ “When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, ¹⁴ if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. ¹⁵ Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place.  (2 Chronicles 7:13-15)

• We need to pray peace and comfort for the families who lost loved ones day.
• We need to pray healing for those injured.
• We need to pray with thankfulness that others were not harmed in the bombs that didn't go off.
• We ultimately need to pray for those behind this attack that they are caught and convicted.

Ironic huh that we are taking "In God we trust" and "God bless America" out of our daily lives but on days like today even the president of our country is encouraging us to pray for the victims.