and I wonder.....

Below is the image that has been plastered all over the planet......the image that makes my mother's heart want to tear through that crowd to get to the smirking face of that 19 year old bomber and rip him to shreds. I pray absolute and swift justice for the sake of the families.  For the sake of our country.

The pastor of the church we visited today displayed this image at the beginning of his sermon.....on forgiveness.  Too soon.  Too offensive.  Too divisive to even suggest forgiveness in this context. It wasn't your kid, pastor.  Your sister.  Your brother.  Your mother.

And then, just as I felt indignance well up in me, just as quickly as it gave rise......I "saw" in my head an image of hundreds of cars and buses making their way to Boston.  I saw thousands of people moving silently through the streets and gathering as one body, surrounding the hospital where this 19 year old boy is sitting, perhaps having felt himself to be the hero.  I "heard" murmuring of every voice in that body of people.  "God.  Almighty Maker of Heaven and Earth.  Have mercy on his soul.  Have mercy on us all."

And I wonder.......what would happen if He heard?

2 Chronicles 7:14..."If my people, who are called by My name, shall humble themselves and pray...then will I hear from heaven....and heal their land."