Saturday, the campus held more public gatherings at the makeshift memorials dedicated to each of the victims. Tomorrow, students will be heading back into classrooms and continue their education despite all that had happened this week. I was deeply moved as I read profiles of all students and faculty members who died. One particular professor's death touched me deeply and very personal. Liviu Librescu, 75, a senior researcher and lecturer in engineering, was a Holocaust survivor who boldly blocked the classroom's door shortly after hearing gunshots coming from another room. As Professor Librescu stayed behind to hold Cho's enterance into the classroom, he yelled at students to jump out of the windows. Sadly, the wonderful Jewish man who wintnessed Holocaust at the young age and came to America to have a better life was gunned down by a mentally unstable student. I cried when I saw footage from Israel where Librescu's body was burried as thousands of Israelites gathered to bid him farewell. Certainly, the healing process for many will be difficult and long. My prayers are offered for those for whom this process will be especially difficult. All this week I used a phrase "Even in such dark times as these....God speaks." I believe Jesus Christ's name had been freely proclaimed through this tragedy-our all-loving God knows exactly how to bring a revival to a land that turn its back to Him. I pray in hopes that people around the world may see God's grace-not anger-through all this.
Psalm 10:14 But you, O God, do see trouble and grief; you consider it to take it in hand. The victim commits himself to you; you are the helper of the fatherless.
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