耶和华是我牧者

This past week is an unforgettable one. On Patriot’s Day, two bombs went off at the finish line of Boston Marathon in downtown Boston, where I live and work. It killed three innocent lives and injured over a hundred. Then on Friday, the whole city and its neighborhood was shutdown for a manhunt that ends in capturing the bomb suspects.

Our lives will never be the same, as we again lost the innocence of peace, something we as a country has worked so hard to restore since the Sept. 11 attack twelve years ago.

How do we make sense of this?

In today’s front page of Boston Globe newspaper, the feature story is about people going to various Churches. It mentions that one of the pastors read aloud Psalm 23:

1 The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.
2 He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me beside quiet waters,
3 he refreshes my soul.
He guides me along the right paths
    for his name’s sake.
4 Even though I walk
    through the darkest valley,[a]
I will fear no evil,
    for you are with me;
your rod and your staff,
    they comfort me.
5 You prepare a table before me
    in the presence of my enemies.
You anoint my head with oil;
    my cup overflows.
6 Surely your goodness and love will follow me
    all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the house of the Lord
    forever.

At times like this, I especially feel the power of God. In this fallen world, we can only come to Him for healing, for comfort, for hope, for love. This past Sunday, during the sermon at my church, our Pastor quoted the following from Martin Luther King, Jr.:

”
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
”

We are God’s light, we are God’s love. Let’s drive out darkness with light. Let’s drive out hate with our love.

Peace, and God Bless.