Letters to the Editor
lisanatoli
Published Letters: 3
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Gorgeous for God
[Read the article: Something to believe in]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I appreciate your honesty. I too struggled with Jesus until I had an experience.
Gorgeous for God:
http://www.lisanatoli.com
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New Leadership/New Role Models VA TECH SHOOTING
[Read the article: "I think he was just a confused kid"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
- Leo Tolstoy
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
- Leo Tolstoy
That Asian kid that just shot 32 people and himself at Virginia Tech is just another reason & reminder of why I dedicate my mind to salvation. This world is a mess. That guy doesn't need condemnation, he needs blessing. What is not love is a call for love. Forgive him.
By killing himself he took away people's target for attack. Instead of experiencing hatred for the kid, most people are experiencing shock and grief. If he was in police custody right now, you would see the level of hatred and anger in this world. More gun laws and more security is not the solution. Sending everyone to therapy who writes a violent term-paper is not the the solution. Suddenly everyone is a watchdog. Can anyone see this? Can anyone see a solution to this picture called the world?? I am curious.
There is no solution.
The whole thing is a sordid mess, right down to NBC running the clip, right down to movie makers and novelists using violence as entertainment. The whole thing doesn't make any sense. Is there any reason for selling a gun other than killing or destroying something? That's the most insane part of all to me. Someone walks into a gun shop, they run a security check on him and he is fine, but what he is going to use the gun for? What do people use as reasons for purchasing a gun? Protection and target practice? Come on. Even the use of a gun for protection still means someone is going to get hurt.
I don't get it.
Times like these I sit entirely stumped. I am told that through my mind a new world is ushered in. I believe this is true. I am a minister. I am a Teacher of God. I am God's messenger. I have dedicated my mind to the certainty that peace is possible.
But times like these, it's so overwhelming. It makes me want to cry.
Everyone is running confused. Everyone is scared. No one knows what to do. Nothing makes any sense.
I am glad I don't own a television. I saw the photo on the internet of that kid aiming a gun at the camera and the one of him with a hammer, and last night I had a dream that I was on a busy street in Manhattan and an Asian kid is walking towards me, arm fully extended, pointing a gun at me. He looked me straight in the eye, then kept walking. I turned around to see what happened next, he kept walking with the gun extended and he stopped and turned the gun towards a yellow cab and shot a passenger sitting in the front seat of the cab. The guy slumped over dead against the window and the kid kept walking with the gun pointed at other people.
And I don't watch television! I only saw 2 photos and read a couple paragraphs of what he said (before I said to myself "that's enough!) and these images are burned in my brain forever.
I want to start finding people to join with me to usher in a new world, who want to be part of new leadership. I don't know how it looks. I need help here. Blogging isn't enough anymore.
The time for NEW LEADERSHIP is now.
It's not going to come from the government. It's also not going to come from any current structure. Hopefully you can see this by now.
New leadership is going to have to start with me. It's going to have to start with you.
Lisa natoli