Footprints in the Windsm # 1290–Sandy Hook silence

Footprints in the Windsm # 1290

Was it loose gun controls that set us up for the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy? Our addiction to violent video game? Mental illness? I don’t know. No one can know.

But we have an opportunity for a right response. Whether or not our leaders call for it, we can resolve, for the sake of generations of children to come, to do it right this time.

Let us as a people take a month, a full 30 days, away from taking action, jumping to quick decisions, even from talking about it. No preaching. No politics. No lobbying.

Let us take time for silence.

Perhaps a time for contrition. Certainly a time for reflection. Mourning. A time for prayer, meditation, contemplation.

Silence,
silence in the face
of tragedy
Our generation
can set an example
for future generations
let us take time
to not know


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