...for hope

For months I've struggled to come up with something worthy to write about; and even though I would rather post something a little more cheerful, at this point I'm too frustrated to care.
Why? We all heard what happened at Virginia Tech, but any immediate news coverage of the tragedy was focused more on the psychopath that killed them or the authority figures who "let it happen" (their rationale, not mine) than on the men, women, and children who lost their lives that day.
Although I didn't know anyone who was caught in the crossfire, that didn't make it any less real for me. These people deserve to be remembered. I know this may not make it on the front page of USA Today but I hope those who read this will see just what it is we lost: children who had their whole lives ahead of them, souls that had yet to witness the glory of God, heroes who were overthrown by the forces of evil, one of us.
So, in memory:
Ross Alameddine / G.V. Loganathan
Jamie Bishop / Partahi Lumbantoruan
Brian Bluhm / Daniel O'Neil
Ryan Clark / Juan Ortiz
Austin Cloyd / Minal Panchal
Jocelyne Couture-Nowak / Erin Peterson
Daniel Perez Cueva / Michael Pohle Jr.
Kevin Granata / Julia Pryde
Matthew Gwaltney / Mary Karen Read
Caitlin Hammaren / Reema Samaha
Jeremy Herbstritt / Waaleed Shaalan
Rachael Hill / Leslie Sherman
Emily Hilscher / Maxine Turner
Jarrett Lane / Nicole White
Matthew La Porte / Lauren McCain
Henry Lee
Liviu Librescu, a teacher, was willing to hold the door to his classroom shut while his students escaped.

Also, I would also like to lift up fellow LH '06 graduate Greg Rossiter, who died in a car accident last Thursday. He went to UNT and was close friends with Melissa and her boyfriend, Kyle so please pray for them.

Lord, I ask that your grace would extend to the families and friends of those who died so that they will find comfort during this difficult time. Help them to seek you, to lean on you so that they can find peace with what happened and start putting their lives back together.
Rest in peace my friends.
Amen.