He Came

[435 words] It was toward the end of March in 2006. A tragedy took place in a small west Tennessee town. The news of the tragedy quickly spread through the town, across the state, and then throughout the nation. The various news networks in our nation reported the news of this unreal event near the beginning of their newscasts. Almost immediately talk shows, both on the local and national and levels examined the tragedy and often reached false conclusions which coldly and cruelly indicted the Lord’s church. The small town where it happened was beyond stunned. Relatives and close friends experienced emotions they had probably never felt. Lives were changed in an instant and they would never be completely the same. A gospel preacher’s son, who himself was a gospel preacher, had been torturously shot by his wife. I cannot begin to imagine the grief of the parents of the…