Our prayers and thoughts are with the passengers and their families who experienced such a sudden and terrifying ordeal. Our hope is that there are no more fatalities than those already identified.
The inevitable question for all of us is, Why? Why should so many ordinary people going about their business or visiting friends or family, be struck by such a terrible ordeal? The next days or weeks will be spent pointing fingers and laying blame, none of which will bring back loved ones or remove the trauma of the living. Compared to the tragedies occuring on the world stage, this tragedy might seem small in comparison; but this is our tragedy, limited tho it be. And there is ultimately no real answer to the question why. But that will not keep us from praying for both the living and the dead. We pray that the scars of the living will heal and that those who have left us will be safe in the arms of the Creator of us all.