Hi Everyone, Some of you noticed that I failed to get an email out last week.

I'm sorry, but I was traveling last week on business and was not able to send out an email. The unbelievable tragedy at Virginia Tech is on all of our hearts. It is almost unimaginable the horror, fear, and sorrow that was unleashed in just a few moments of time. Events like this always cause us to pause and think about life and loved ones. For me, I have made it a habit to try to get to know the victims in news events like this. I fear that there is so much death and bad news in our multi-media world that soon people just become numbers or statistics. 33 people were killed. That's one level of knowledge. A 79 year-old professor that was a survivor of the Holocaust, a 4.0 GPA band member, a biker and hiker, a future doctor, a researcher in motor skills for cerebral palsy, a husband, a son, a daughter, a friend, ... ... ... This level of knowledge is much deeper, and keeps alive that what died that morning were not simply numbers, or anonymous bodies, but real, live people that God loved, others loved, and so should I.