The news media reported that a 78-year-old man
entered a casino in Reno, Nevada, pulled out a gun and shot and wounded five
people. Everyone was in shock, especially as to why an elderly man would do
such a violent thing. A spokesman for the casino said that apparently the man was
jealous that his wife or girlfriend was at the casino with another man. Interesting
way to settle a relationship problem. Fortunately for the authorities, their
senior shooter wasn’t difficult to apprehend. According to the news story, they
caught him as he tried to shuffle out of the casino with his walker.
We live in a world that is filled with conflict
and alienation, a world of fragmented and broken relationships, a world of lost
dreams and personal failures. People are hurting for all kinds of reasons and
often choose to resolve their pain in ways that instead bring greater pain to themselves
and others. It’s so often the case that when we have unresolved guilt and pain
inside, we lash out either at ourselves or at others. And the result is a “lose-lose”
life.
Is it possible to stop this inherently painful
and destructive cycle of alienation and brokenness? Is it possible to live life
with a sense of peace in a world of conflict? What can be one with our personal
guilt from our own failures? Just live with it? What do we do with those areas
of life where we need to either receive forgiveness or give it?
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