Restless Evil

Orchids Galore, Ginter Botanical Garden.  Copyright 2012: singeronthesand

Evil people are restless unless they're making trouble;

they can't get a good night's sleep unless the

are making life miserable for somebody.

Perversity is their food and drink,

violence their drug of choice.

Proverbs 4:14-17 [The Message]

Last Saturday I went to the graduation party for one of our students at Beulah.  She was Salutatorian of her class, a wonderful girl, and the party was great fun.  This coming Sunday, I will be attending a graduation party for one of my private voice students.  She is also a wonderful girl and I am looking forward to attending her celebration.  What are the elements of a good party?  Food, for one - lots and lots of good food with plenty of desserts!!  Friends are also an important element for easy listening and great conversation.  People who attend these celebrations bring a good attitude, a smile on their face, a gift for the graduate, and a good appetite!  

Last Saturday night, at an apartment complex adjacent to Auburn University in Alabama, one of the guests brought something else to the pool party - a gun, concealed in his pocket. When the witch's brew of  males, females and booze ignited into a fight, the gun emerged from its hiding place to join the melee.  Six people were shot, leaving three men dead, one man critically wounded and fighting for his life, and two men who were treated at the hospital for lesser wounds.  One witness said, "The party went from us chillin' with all these females to a massacre for no reason at all.  It happened so quick - in about a second!"

The 22-year-old man wielding the gun has had two previous arrests for gun-related offenses, but has never been prosecuted for those charges.  Either he carries a gun with him at all times, or he specifically brought it to this party.  Either way, he was obviously able and willing to use it, and doing so cost three young men their lives.