Spiritual Awakening: New Beginnings Inspired By President Obama
As I watched President Obama’s reaction to the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut on Friday and then again on Sunday one thought continued to come to me a time for new beginnings. I then turned to Ecclesiastes 3:1 and began to contemplate the reason for what seems another senseless act of violence and as I closed my eyes a thought occured to me that the 26 lives lost in this tragedy and the families affected give us reason to come together and begin to rebuild our country by turning to love and foregiveness and seeking ways to connect with others. We all now have a purpose and that is to get to know our neighbors and if they or their children are strugling to help them in any way we can. We now have a purpose to improve our mental health system, share the idea of spirituality with others, make others feel important. It is sad that it takes events such as The Sandy Hook Elementary Shooting to wake us up to our spirituality.