December 6, 2007
On our way to the DMV yesterday, we got an urgent phone call from David's mom... that's how we realized that there was a shooting occuring at West Roads mall, and people had been killed.
I was there only a few days before with Erika, and it's really an intense feeling when you realize how close to your 'life' these things can happen. The last time I was living in Washington DC when the sniper and his young accomplice were terrorizing us at random there. Only two days before, I had been to the Home Depot and had parked only a few feet away from where the sniper took another of his victims... a woman. We live in a world where we not only fight terrorism in strange, far away lands... we fight it here, in our own towns, against those we thought we knew, in a place that is familiar to us.
About this young man, I will not mention his pathetic name.... I have no forgiveness in me for this pathetic slime. He felt 'society' wasn't giving him his fair due perhaps, oh wait... he also got fired from McDonald's and broke up with his girlfriend... boo hoo. With all the pain and suffering that world leaders and terrorists already inflict on each other and their people... the last thing I care to hear about is this pathetic, "please feel sorry for me", piece of crap, who ended his letter with 'Now I'll be famous'... Screw you and I hope that if there is this brimstone fire and hell, that you are cooking quite nicely in it now, screaming and pleading your pathetic cries to the devil himself.
For the families that lost loved ones... I'm speechless. I pray that their souls have found peace and that somehow peace will find you in the future. There is nothing really that can be said that could make this any better. I will be praying for you all.
Let's put our energies into thinking of those that were lost and NOT to the one that committed this horrendous act. He shot himself like the coward he was, and I will not speak his name. I will not give him the pleasure he felt he deserved.
Please take care of each other! And remember, no matter how bad things get, there is always someone else in this world that is suffering in ways that you could never understand.
~~Desiree~~
To those we lost in the Omaha Community, RIP
Let us forgive because it in forgiving that we are forgiven!!! Dear God, help us remember that planting seeds of peace and forgiveness will gives us a harvest of much peace and love in our lives. Altough we might not see the harvest when we want to see it, in due season we will reap the benefits of our patience.
Remember my darling that those who are peacemakers will plant seeds of peace and repa a harvest of goodness!!! (James 3:18)
I just tried to call you and an strange girl answered your phone and told me that you had left it in her house last night. So I hope you read this and go get it!
I love you!