Dear True Believer that we can make the World a better place!
Since I've been writing from about the age of eight or nine, very few things have caused me to go silent. Words, have always seem to flow from me. But, not this time.
THAT, I am a humanitarian, mother and grandmother, it makes little sense to me that someone would actually plan the taking of a life. And most certainly, not the lives of helpless children going about their 'everyday-schoolday' business of reading, writing, and arithmetic.
How does someone do that... the taking of a life?
'He' woke up this past Friday morning and likely ate a bowl of cereal, drank a glass of juice, perhaps ate a piece of fruit-- all the while dressed in full gear camouflage. Casually drove to 'his' parent's home-- and killed 'his' mother with a high powered assault weapon. But 'his' rampage didn't stop there. 'He' drove to the school where 'his' mother worked as a teacher and unleashed an unimaginable hellfire of bullets, killing twenty innocent children who were-- going about their 'everyday-schoolday' business of reading, writing and a little bit of arithmetic!!!
Teachers and school administrators did not escape 'his' horrific carnage. Nor did 'he', as the last life 'he' took was his own.
Teachers and school administrators did not escape 'his' horrific carnage. Nor did 'he', as the last life 'he' took was his own.
This boggles my mind. How does someone do this?
We may find a few answers in the work of Systemic Solutions Relationship Management expert Martyn Carruthers. In his "Human Systems" business model, Carruthers speaks to the generational predictability of chaos in family systems, as follows:
"...Each family has predictable patterns of interactions (family traditions) that are passed and replicated across generations. Family interactions can modify but not end these cross-generational entanglements. External observation and assistance is needed. Each family member affects all other members of a family. Parental moods and actions affect children and other relatives. Family members respond to each other's issues in predictable ways. Many solutions create new problems - and often a solution is worse than the problem."
Emotional Maturity and Emotional Intelligence ...from Systemic Coaching
We've come full circle again kindreds. Sandy Hook didn't have to happen. I really do believe that collectively we can make our World a better place. And while I wish I had all the answers, Life doesn't come with an instruction manual. Mental health professionals, doctors and probably even lawyers will probably debate 'Sandy Hook' for years to come, in an attempt to try and figure out, "What happened?" ...to this young man and his family. We'll need to "make some logical sense" of this incident so that we don't go crazy ourselves!
Politicians, we'll need you to revisit our gun legislation statuts this upcoming session. Gun shoppe owners, we'll need your help in keeping a more watchful eye on characters who come into your establishments! Guns don't kill people. People kill people.
Politicians, we'll need you to revisit our gun legislation statuts this upcoming session. Gun shoppe owners, we'll need your help in keeping a more watchful eye on characters who come into your establishments! Guns don't kill people. People kill people.
Some events in American history are so looming in proportion that they REQUIRE our understanding and an immediate resolution. Through education and enlightenment of others, I'm committed to doing just that in the memory of the twenty fallen angels in Newtown, Connecticut.
Post Script | 5:00pmEST, Christmas Day 2012--
(by Debra J. Gordon | Tallahassee, FL 32309 USA)
Dear Believers: Do you feel that God repeats history because a lesson was not learned from a past event? I do. If we as a collective body of people did not get His message, how does He make us hear? Sometimes God speaks to us 'in the moment' which might not be discernible, as being 'His' words. If we don't hear Him, He may then-- escalate his voice through an earthquake, tsunami, maybe even through the radical upheaval of a people.
Today is Christmas. As a light rain falls in this town it's a most peaceful day at our house. Wanted to spread a little Christmas cheer by sharing hearfelt images of the season on my Facebook page. So, I searched the term 'Three Wise Men' and found an interesting link at Wikipedia, prompting me to pen this postscript to Twenty Fallen Angels Unite the World. To my lead-in question, were you aware that a Sandy-Hook-like event may have presented itself when the Wise Men were traveling to find the baby Jesus? This event was known as the Massacre of Innocents. From Wikipedia:
"...On finding him, they gave him three symbolic gifts: gold, frankincense and myrrh. Warned in a dream that Judean king Herod intended to kill the child, the Wise Men decided to return home by a different route. This prompted Herod to resort to killing all the young children in Bethlehem, an act called the Massacre of Innocents, in an attempt to eliminate a rival heir to his throne." (Wikipedia, "Biblical Magi", Country of Origin and Journey, paragraph 3.)
Biblical reference to the massacre is cited from the book of Matthew 2:16-18... When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi. Scholars and historians have varying points of view of the massacre but I thought this tidbit of 'history' might yield some insight into present day world events and how these events play profound importance in how WeThePeople move forward as a Nation... the collective body of The One. ///end
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