What do we feel about the Manchester bombing?
by Ian Paul, Psephizo:
[…] We feel shock that such a thing could happen here. The violence and chaos that we see reported from distant lands has visited us, here. This is true for all of us living in the same country, but of course it is most powerfully true for those living in Manchester, close to the scene, where it is places that they know in the daily lives which has become the backdrop to the devastation we have seen. The violence has ripped through our normally stable lives—and the shock of this makes us impatient with the careless and glib use of the language of ‘stability’ for political point-scoring.
We feel overwhelming grief and compassion for the families of those who have lost the ones they loved. It is almost impossible to imagine the grief and despair of those who have lost an eight-year-old daughter in this way, and words fail us. Anyone who has experienced such loss, or been close to those who have, know that the loss of a child is a wound that never fully heals in this life—not perhaps should it–but becomes a reality around which life might begin to be reordered.
Immediately we heard reported a new sense of fear and anxiety in the streets of Manchester—but how will we feel at future large gatherings which we are keenly aware will be vulnerable to future attacks? There is no real way of protecting ourselves from such things if we want to live in freedom.
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