Innocence

I was watching an old episode of Millennium this evening. ( an old telivision series filmed in Vancouver )
On the show there was a funeral for a boy who was killed violently. What the pastor said is totally fitting to the recent tragedy in the US.

When A child dies we seek meaning from god,
why must the innocent suffer
we ask.
And when that death is a violent death
the pain is compounded by
images of horror,
images that threaten to blot out the memory
of the
innocence that once was, and yet
God offers us no meaning.
Not in the
personal sense,
so we attempted to struggle with death
angrily blaming
ourselves for an unjust universe,
for the taking of a life for which there
seems
no possible reason.
We don't know why they we taken from us
we
can only cherish the innocence that once was.
Keeping it alive by remembering
it and praying
for the restoration of innocence in the face of evil.


From an episode of Millennium.