On the Marathon Bombing

No one ties his shoes before a prestigious race and thinks, "Today I may die in a bomb blast," but it happened at the Boston Marathon.  Sadly, it happens in Beirut and Somalia and other places on an almost daily basis.  I am deeply disturbed.  First because of Boston.  Because of the World Trade Center.  But because this happens all over the world.  I am disturbed that no one is really safe.  I am disturbed that my niece worries for her infant daughter.  I am disturbed that people hate so much or are so sick.

Yet it exists in our daily lives.  There are people in parts of the world that live with this all the time, and I have to admit, I am not disturbed all the time as I should be.  People hurt other people and we seem powerless to do anything about it.  What can help?  What can stop this?   It should hurt every day, when senseless acts hurt people.