by Paula Neal Mooney When I first heard of the One Day Blog Silence badge going around to honor the angels of the Virginia Tech shooting , I thought to myself: Oh boy, here goes another meme designed to go viral off the blood of gun shot victims. But now that I'm closer to the day that http://onedayblogsilence.com has chosen to honor them -- Monday, April 30, 2007 -- I feel compelled to observe it. It feels less about selfishness and more about honor -- like the bell that tolled 33 times for 33 human beings that I listened to in my car. "Do not ask for whom the bell tolls...it tolls for thee..." There might always be a smidgen of the voyeurism set forth in the exposing truth of Don Henley's Dirty Laundry lyrics when writing about stuff like death. There's a reason that song is so popular so many years later. But it's good to give myself a gut-check daily and ask God to "create in me a clean heart" anew. Receiving forgiveness for any wrong motives...
Wheel in the Sky Keeps on Turning...