My dad used to say that “there is nothing more tragic than watching the news on the television“. When I got to the age of fifty I began to really understand what he meant. We go through life and the younger we are the less we take from the news on TV or even the papers. Another one of his sayings was “don’t buy the times until you retire because you won’t have the time to really take it in“.

Both of those pearls of wisdom came upon me today, I watched the news tonight and saw the piece on poor baby Peter, how I hope that he is in the arms of our Lord now and that he truly knows that what love is now “suffer unto me little children”.

But what left me fuming were the words of the Judge and the words that he used when sentencing those animals. Are the judiciary so truly out of touch with humanity and the grass roots of the good minded people who live in the UK? What on earth posses a man with the power to deliver a much higher verdict choose the lenient way he sentenced them all today. They as good as murdered that poor defenceless child. They deserve to be euthanatized for one tenth of the things that they made him suffer. I know where there is good there is most certainly evil so on the Day of Judgment let them fear the wrath of God.

Now with hindsight I can say without fear of contradiction my dad was right. The news tonight has left me with a bad taste in my mouth and a crying pain for the innocence of that child in my heart.

Prayer:

Pick me up, Lord, and hold me in Your loving arms. Protect me from the pressures of the day, and remove the heaviness from my heart. Inspire me with the knowledge that You and I together can handle anything. Amen.