On Friday, December 14, 2012, in Newtown,Connecticut, a man used a gun, bullets, and the energy of his life to take the lives of twenty Sandy Hook Elementary school children, six school staff, his own mother, and finally himself. No one knows what to say in moments like this. But in these moments we mumble, utter, and declare so many things about God. Do we really mean these things? Or are we making excuses for God? It was disheartening to hear how many people, President Obam

Thoughts and prayers. Thoughts and prayers has turned into the tweetable, facebookable, soundbiteable minimal response to a moment of crisis or the unending wave of tragedy upon tragedy. So often have we read or said or typed thoughts and prayers, that it now becomes untweetable, unfacebookable, unsayable, unstomachable. But, thoughts and prayers is not categorically detestable. When a catastrophe or a personal loss seems too big, or simply beyond our capacity to actually do