My life is going on still. My alarm continues to blast in my ears earlier than I would like it to. The bus still runs like clock work and Starbucks is still brewing Pike's Place coffee. Time does not stop for me but for one of our fellow students at Texas his time has ended here on earth. It blows my mind how thousands of us were nervously watching the news, looking out the windows and being hustled into buildings as the Swat teams arrived to protect our campus at this exact time yesterday morning and now 24 hours later we all move on with our lives.
As I prayed with a group of girls this morning God placed on my heart the fact that yes, time does move on but that doesn't mean we forget that one student was so lost he felt it necessary to take his own life. God doesn't want us to move on with time and forget that He protected us yesterday, He graciously held the UT campus in the palm of His hands as He watched one of His children take his life. Why would God save so many but let that one single boy pass away? Maybe to use him as a testimony of our faith, maybe to let the light of God shine through the tragic event or maybe so we can be reminded of how precious life is and how as Christians and followers of Christ we need to be reaching out to the lost.
We must not forget yesterday, September 28, 2010. We must remember that God saved hundreds from danger and through the loss of one God will hopefully save hundreds more because we chose to not just move on with time but we chose to move on with a purpose and a reason to stand up and praise God. He is good all the time, we cannot forget that. So today I encourage you to enjoy the things you take for granted and to thank God for allowing you to wake up this morning and ask God to reveal to you how you can use Colton Tooley to glorify Him and bring His light into the shadow's of someone else's life.
I love you all. Be good, be safe and stay sweet.
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