I've ripped on Wallis in the past, but I really enjoy what he wrote this week about the Virginia Tech tragedy, although as much as I consider myself a conservationist, I'm not sure of his inclusion of elephants in the narrative:

We are sad today, and we will be sad for quite a while. We are not moving on, we are embracing our mourning. ... We do not understand this tragedy. We know we did nothing to deserve it, but neither does a child in Africa dying of AIDS, neither do the invisible children walking the night away to avoid being captured by the rogue army, neither does the baby elephant watching his community being devastated for ivory, neither does the Mexican child looking for fresh water, neither does the Appalachian infant killed in the middle of the night in his crib in the home his father built with his own hands being run over by a boulder because the land was destabilized. No one deserves a tragedy.

Unfortunatly, these tragedies are a result of the fallen world that we live in, a world that is still under the control of the evil one. Thanks be to God for giving us a way out!