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“I don’t know. It doesn’t make sense.”

Stephen M. Miller
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WHEN CHILDREN REST IN PIECES and it doesn't make sense: In moments of value, and under the weight of great loss, we sing the sad song, we rise in silent tribute, and we find in ourselves the love and the wrath to speak the word that matters.

It came as a text message from my daughter.

That was the moment I found out a shooter had killed a classroom of elementary school students in Texas yesterday.

I was standing in my kitchen, still wet from my walk in the rain to the elementary school. I had just picked up my daughter’s son from his last full day as a kindergartener.

I’ve been teaching my grandson Owen some life skills this year: working with wood, fixing toys, and taking things apart to see how they work. This time, I was getting ready to teach him how to make “monster hamburgers” for the two of us, and for his dad and his three-year-old brother.

We were standing at the kitchen counter—Owen on a stool he helped me build. His mom sent the text from her work at a children’s hospital,

“Did you see the news? Don’t watch it with Owen around.”

It doesn’t make sense

I was already reading that text out loud so Owen could hear what his mom was saying from work. I stopped after “Don’t watch it with…” Then I quickly backed a few steps away from Owen and opened the Associated Press News app.

I read the lead silently and clicked the screen away.

Owen said, “Don’t watch it with what?” He repeated that three times before I simply said, “I don’t know. It doesn’t make sense.”

Conversation with God

I don’t know what to say to God.

I don’t know what he would say to us.

But I do know there’s a time to cry.

There’s a time to be silent.

There’s a time to speak up.

In moments of value, and under the weight of great loss, we sing the sad song, we rise in silent tribute, and we find in ourselves the love and the wrath to speak the word that matters.

May that word catch fire in the spirit of good people.

God of Creation, strike the spark, if it must be you.

We’ve been cold for so long.

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STEPHEN M. MILLER is an award winning bestselling Christian author of easy-reading books about the Bible and Christianity and author of the Casual English Bible® paraphrase. His books have sold over two million copies and include The Complete Guide to the Bible and Who’s and Where’s Where in the Bible.

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  1. Wayne Sacchi

    May 25, 2022 at 5:28 pm

    Thank you for posting this. I posted three of your earlier blogs on this same subject that you wrote through the years and here we are again. I saw this quote posted today:

    “There is something deeply hypocritical about praying for a problem you are unwilling to resolve.”

    I don’t know either, it doesn’t make sense!

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