101st post on such an awful day

I should be celebrating - well perhaps that it is too strong of a word - but this post would have originally be devoted to a small happy dance for making it to 101 postings but instead my heart sits slumped over in a corner as I read about the terror attacks in Bombay, India. I first heard about the attacks when I was at work listening to NPR and throughout the day, I checked CNN online and BBC News online to hear more and more awful news about the numbers killed and wounded. Still at this hour hostages are being held against their will by the few remaining terrorists.

I just don't get it. I really don't. I'm somewhat at a loss for words. I just keep saying over and over..."I just don't get it". I don't know how else to put it. It doesn't make sense to me. How is it ok to take another's life? What's the point? I mean, does it really prove a point? In the long-run? Seriously?? I just don't get it.

It makes me sad that this has happened in my Motherland...in my home of homes, my land, my birthplace in fact. Why us? I just don't get it.

I'm going to call home in about a half hour. I should probably mention that my immediate family lives in Bangalore, India but I do have a cousin as well as very close family friends in Bombay that I'm worried about.

As I left work today feeling all down and just plain sad, I saw a double rainbow. I gazed at this rainbow from one end to another inhaling the majestic sprawl of color before me wondering why I should be seeing such a wonderful sight on a day that is smothered in gloom. Sigh. Resting my eyes on the rainbow I wondered if Somebody up above was sending a message that all those that lost their life today whether in Bombay, in the Congo or in the war are somewhere full of color, light and beauty. In fact, I just have to believe that. I have to believe that today's full day of rain, dark clouds and eventual rainbow was a symbol of Somebody's greater plan to care for those that are no longer on this Earth.

Please take a moment to send your prayers, positive thoughts, energy towards those in India and anywhere in the world that lost somebody today.

Deep Sigh.