The Day Takes a Wrong Turn
Posted by Steve Jamieson in Friends & Family, News & Current Events, Villainy, tags: Beth, sinJust a few seconds after walking in the door of my apartment after church this morning, my phone rang. The caller was an obviously distraught Elvenyukiryu—my good friend from high school. She had just learned that an 18-year-old friend of hers from work had earlier in the morning murdered the parents of the 14-year-old girl he was secretly dating, and then fled with the girl, either having kidnapped her or taking her willingly. (Follow the story as it breaks: html | rss.)
For some reason yet to be determined, this young man took a seriously wrong turn in life that culminated in the death of two people, the possible kidnapping of a minor, orphaned children, and friends left in a world that doesn’t make sense anymore—shattered lives all around. What possesses an otherwise normal and well-adjusted person to commit murder?
And yet, what depths of sin exist within all our souls? Is not the evil necessary to commit murder present within us all in one form or another? Is it not only by the grace of God that such evil is restrained?
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Update: This is now the main story on CNN.com.
Indeed.
This week here in Miami, a 17-year old girl got on her school bus to go to school. She shot a schoolmate because they had an argument the day before. Witnesses and friends said it was the last person you would expect, nobody had any idea.
Total depravity rests in us all.
Just recently I heard about a boy of 13 that raped a 21 year old SLU student…. don’t know if you heard about it or not but I found it to be shocking! It kinda makes you think what is the world coming to when children are not innocent anymore?