I cannot post --not yesterday, not today-- as usual, reeling, as we all are, after the tragedy that took so many young lives in Newtown, Connecticut yesterday.
Headlines scream, "Newtown is Everytown, USA," and President Obama reminded the nation and indeed the world, that "these are our children, our towns," as he called for meaningful action.
"Silence is the right response in such a moment." (David Lantigua, moral theology professor at Catholic University) “Our initial response should be careful not to attempt to explain away the suffering by identifying some cause,” he wrote in a long, anguished contemplation of the Connecticut shooting. “We are not prepared as a society to face such evil without first responding to the countless victims and their families. And this calls for silence. Only silence will enable us to weep and grieve with those who are weeping right now.”" ~ Washington Post
Silence seems right to me now. For a while. Silence and contemplation.
Not looking away, but quietly being present, as best one can. Sitting with what is. And remembering, always, "the opposite of good is not evil, it is indifference." Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
