Peace, Peace, There Is No Peace

I still applaud Mrs. Cook-Porter and Mrs. Ogle for being so calm on this day 12 years ago.  We all watched the Today Show on the old Zenith television set in the blue classroom near the door at Enterprise Elementary.  I remember drawing a picture of what I was seeing on the back of my homework (that picture is now lost).



I've seen those images many times since then, but they will still be as shocking to me as they were 12 years ago.

Today during Chapel at Capital University, Dr. Hasseler and the Chapel Choir sang an old Shaker Hymn that goes,

"O Holy Father I will be
A child of peace and purity
For well I know Thy hand will bless
The seeker after righteousness."

This was one of today's readings at Chapel.  Jeremiah 6:10-14.

To whom can I speak and give warning?
    Who will listen to me?
Their ears are closed^[a]
    so they cannot hear.
The word of the Lord is offensive to them;
    they find no pleasure in it.
But I am full of the wrath of the Lord,
    and I cannot hold it in.

“Pour it out on the children in the street
    and on the young men gathered together;
both husband and wife will be caught in it,
    and the old, those weighed down with years.
Their houses will be turned over to others,
    together with their fields and their wives,
when I stretch out my hand
    against those who live in the land,”
declares the Lord.
“From the least to the greatest,
    all are greedy for gain;
prophets and priests alike,
    all practice deceit.
They dress the wound of my people
    as though it were not serious.
‘Peace, peace,’ they say,
    when there is no peace