Tuesday, 17 April 2007
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When confronted with violence and death, it is incredible to hear stories of sacrifice. A 76 year old professor, Liviu Librescu — himself a Holocaust survivor — sacrificed his life to save his students. He barricaded the door from Cho Seung-Hui. Librescu’s son, Joe Librescu, said, "My father blocked the doorway with his body and asked the students to flee. Students started opening windows and jumping out." Some students broke legs as they jumped from the classroom’s second-floor windows.
"Librescu, an Israeli engineering and math lecturer who survived the Nazi killings and later escaped from Communist Romania, was one of several foreign victims of Monday’s shootings, which coincided with Israel’s Holocaust remembrance day." ()
Yesterday, Monday, April 16, 2007, Cho Seung-Hui killed 30 people before committing suicide. He killed two people in a dorm and 28 people in Norris Hall at Virginia Tech.
Maybe Jesus being the gate to God is more about sacrificing our lives for others — like Librescu being the sacrificial door for his students — than adhering to doctrine. We are called to imitate Christ, not believe in Christ. God believes we can follow him.
John 10:9-16:
"I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. He will come in and go out, and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. The hired hand is not the shepherd who owns the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it. The man runs away because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep. I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me—just as the Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my life for the sheep. I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd."From ():
Students who survived the massacre at Norris Hall spoke of school janitors who, as Cho opened fire upstairs, ran to help others instead of saving themselves."The janitors came running through, and told everyone to get out," said Nick Vozza, 20, of Burke, Virginia, who was in the Norris Hall basement when Cho began his attack two floors above.
In a German class upstairs, a few students tried to barricade the door against the onslaught of bullets, and then tried to help their injured classmates while they waited for help, Trey Perkins, 20, told Fox News.
Of 15 students in his class, he said only about six came out alive.
This entry was originally published at Interconnectedness
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