The Dark Knight Rises (James Holmes shoots 70, kills 12, at midnight Batman movie)

The black clouds.  The ominous rumbling.  The continual flashing heat lightning.  They all set in Thursday evening July 19, 2012 around 9pm in Nashville, TN.  My fiancé and I were driving to McDonalds for two mango-pineapple smoothies, but I couldn’t help but stare at the frightening sky the entire time.  Something was wrong.  I just knew it.  It was as if the very sky itself was warning over and over again: “Danger, DANGER, DANGER!!!”

And it wouldn’t stop!  Three hours later, around midnight, I went to sleep to the sounds of distant thundering and flickering lightning on my window curtains.  Then, four hours later, around 4am in the morning (now Friday July 20, 2012) I groggily awoke to heavy rain, thunder, and lightning.  “Ugghhh,” I thought for a few waking conscience seconds, “Is it STILL doing this stuff?”  But then I fell right back to sleep.  Another hour later, around 5am, I awoke for good this time and to my amazement heard more rumbling thunder and still saw the constant flickering light of heat lightening on my curtains!  Yes, something was definitely wrong!  I just didn’t know what.

Four hours later, around 9am in the morning, I saw the breaking news: Colorado shooter shoots 71 (kills 12) at new Batman movie “The Dark Knight Rises” midnight screening.  And there it was!  There was the reason for the all-night long danger signal!  At 12:39am (1:39am my time) Friday morning, James Eagan Holmes, 24, walked into a packed Aurora, Colorado movie theater in full military garb, threw a can of teargas into the crowd and opened fire.  The mayhem.  The unthinkable carnage.  The all-night terror.

One of the deceased victims, Jessica Ghawi, said it best a few months back in a blog post she made after surviving another shooting event in Toronto: “I was shown how fragile life was on Saturday.  I saw the terror on bystanders’ faces.  I saw the victims of a senseless crime.  I saw lives change.  I was reminded that we don’t know when or where our time on Earth will end.  When or where we will breathe our last breath.”  I couldn’t agree more.  Your permanent, unchangeable, eternal destiny is knocking at your door every breathe you breathe.  For Heaven’s sake … be ready!!!


Video: July 20, 2012 Heat Lightning Nashville, Tennessee
News: Colorado Theater Shooting



With a heavy heart,

Gabriel

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