Are there not days when the news is so overwhelming it just knocks the very wind out of you? It’s not the silly matters of Lindsay Lohan or Paris Hilton. It’s not the antics of some athlete.
The news, for whatever reason, will seem to take up the cause of some missing child or woman. This time it was from my home turf, so I paid a little more attention to it. A newly graduated high school senior girl goes missing on Saturday. Today, they find her body. I saw that story and everything just left me.
Another story I saw coupled with it related the story of a 15 year old girl held captive in a closet that was hidden from view. Against her will.
There are days and there are days. This is a day where I know there are no answers but I am left with huge questions. What in the world possesses such sick people? What possesses someone to take an 18 year old girl captive in a parking lot in full view of surveillance cameras, then kill her?
What possesses a couple to kidnap a girl and hold her in a hidden closet for a year?
What is happening in our world? How do we respond?
I know the short answer is “sin.” But every once in awhile the whole issue of the depth of humanity’s sin just slaps me hard in the face and this is one of those days. Our world is unbelievably dark and we are in need of LIGHT. We are in desperate need of change.
Apprentice 2 Jesus 
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