Sniper!

With the temperatures remaining the high 70s (F) and the sun shining brightly, I drove down to the Louisville Riverfront after worship this morning. (See the photograph above of one of the several Riverfront walkways).

Thus I didn’t get home until about 12:45 p.m. A check of my phone messages indicated that my mother had been telephoning at about three minute intervals. Crisis? Yes, in a way.

It seems that Kentuckiana has its own, home-grown (?) terrorist. Around 12:30 a.m. this morning someone began shooting at cars on Interstate-65 near Seymour, in southern Indiana, which is about 55 miles north of Louisville. My mother knows that there is a church in Seymour that is part of the Kentuckiana Association of the United Church of Christ, of which I a the moderator, and that I habitually visit different Association congregations on Sundays. She was concerned that I was a victim of this sniper.

According to the news reports I’ve been able to access, at least four vehicles were hit by gunfire. One person is dead.

With so much violence and death in the world, I suppose it was just a matter of time before such random and senseless murder hit close to my home.

When will it end? I fear the answer is “never.”