Thank you Diana, This is an unspeakably tragic on every level. Your thoughtful and compassionate response gives language to so many of us who are wrestling with stories of utterly disregard of human life, dignity and sacredness. My heart is heavy with the truth that past and continuing acts of violence can and will echo for generatio…
Thank you Diana, This is an unspeakably tragic on every level. Your thoughtful and compassionate response gives language to so many of us who are wrestling with stories of utterly disregard of human life, dignity and sacredness. My heart is heavy with the truth that past and continuing acts of violence can and will echo for generations. I appreciate your words that blame is too easily appointed and that the impulse to punish and exact vengeance is indeed human. And yet historically, there is no such thing as redemptive violence. There is only violence and the wounds it leaves for generations. Yes, a tragedy on every level.
Thank you Diana, This is an unspeakably tragic on every level. Your thoughtful and compassionate response gives language to so many of us who are wrestling with stories of utterly disregard of human life, dignity and sacredness. My heart is heavy with the truth that past and continuing acts of violence can and will echo for generations. I appreciate your words that blame is too easily appointed and that the impulse to punish and exact vengeance is indeed human. And yet historically, there is no such thing as redemptive violence. There is only violence and the wounds it leaves for generations. Yes, a tragedy on every level.
Thank you for these words of power and wisdom, Carrie. They sum up my own wrestling with where to go with my feelings of sadness, despair and horror.