I write this with a saddened heart. Saturday, a young woman was killed. While intoxicated, she left a party in a vehicle driven by a young man, who was also very intoxicated. Though people at the party are rumored to have called the police letting them know that someone was driving drunk, the young man eventually drove on Rainwater road, going almost 40 miles an hour over the speed limit, where he lost control of his vehicle, and crashed into a tree. His passenger was killed.
Elisabeth Molloy, a student at Millbrook High School lost her life in the crash, while Garrett Prince, a fellow student survived, and is charged with 7 felonies, including felony death by motor vehicle.
I cant even imagine what it must be like to be a student at Millbrook this week, how hard it may be. Such sadness, such heart break, such darkness.
At Passion, we talked about Freedom. I think about slavery, and bondage, and the type of Freedom that one needs. Now I think about the darkness that this generation is in, the fear that they live in, the bondage to drugs, and alcohol, and sex that they live in, and how easy it is to get into a lifestyle, and how hard it is to get out. Sometimes were not willing to make choices that will better our lives, sometimes were not willing to make choices that will set us free. Sometimes, what we perceive to be freedom, what we perceive is a casual lifestyle is actually a lifestyle that holds us in Bondage, a lifestyle with no room to live as we are called.
In this darkness, in this sadness, in this pain, in this anger, I pray that the darkness will flee, that the light will spring forth into it, and that the darkness will not be able to hide. I pray that in this time, that people will be led to Christ, that they will be led to a life that is healthy, a life that is not bonded to worldly things, a life that is free.
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