Please join me in prayer for the victims of the shooting in Florida.  

I thought this picture really said a lot.  A mother holding another mother and crying for her children.  While wearing the ashes as a sign of our faith.

That is the funny thing about faith.  Science wants to tell us we can't prove it so it doesn't exist.  Politicians want to make laws to make these tragedies never happen.  Call me a cynic, but neither will solve the problem.  We live in a fallen world.  This is our 'temporary home' as Carrie Underwood once wrote.  Why does God allow these things to happen?  Because we have free will.  We have to choose to do good.  And we will.  We always do.  There will be acts of kindness and charity that will amaze us.  

"This has been a day where we've seen the worst of humanity. Tomorrow is gonna bring out the best in humanity as we come together to move forward from this unspeakable tragedy," Superintendent Runcie said.

OLL is hosting a prayer service at 2pm today at the church. All are welcome to join us.

Pray for peace for the victims, pray for the gunman, pray for all those affected, pray.

And do good.  

Edmund Burke once said: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men (and women) should do nothing.”