in a poorly thought out effort to NOT climb on my high horse today (unlike the rest of my fellow americans) i tried really really hard to not mention the most recent assassination of osama bin laden. however, the more status updates and news articles i read, i simply can not resist.
my first thought upon hearing about bin laden's death was "hmm, i guess it's about time."
my second thought was "...crap, the war continues." because no matter if we had killed him or imprisoned him, vengeance will be had by his followers. just the same as it was had by us.
now, i am not God or Jesus. so, i will not even begin to think i know how the Great Almighty feels about this occurrence. i do know that Jesus speaks of love and forgiveness. He speaks of life and how we should not judge one another but yet, we will be judged by God.
does this excuse the actions of man? of course not. does this wipe clean so many deaths including that of osama bin laden's? never. what it is supposed to do is let our hearts find freedom from bitterness. to let go of the resentment and hate. because hate, indifference, the lack of love, unforgiveness... in the end, these are the things that will kill us.
i will never celebrate the death of a life. even one that was lived so poorly. because even osama bin laden was created by God.
2 comments:
Very well said Amanda!
I wish blogger had a like button.
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