Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Dear God,

What causes one person to harm another?  What is the driving force that motivates a person to destroy another?

Recently I read several stories of parents killing their children. I do not understand.  What kind of evil, hatred, bitterness, or sorrow causes someone to intentionally impose pain and suffering on a child?  What is it?

I look into the eyes of children and all I see is beauty.  How is it that others see something else?  Why do they want to break their spirit, take away their innocence, and rob them of life?

In the right circumstances are we all capable of hurting others?  Is there some flaw, some DNA error, that gives us a predisposition to strike out against another? 

Like clay
in the
potter's hand,
refashion us
to lovingly care
for one another.
Restore, reconcile,
and renew us
to be compassionate,
understanding, and merciful.
Teach us,
your way,
O Lord.
Bless the children
of our world,
I pray.

Love, Andrea