A friend of mine, John Hill, posted about being close to Columbine on a business trip the day the massacre happened ten years ago.  It brings back to my mind the next year when I had the opportunity to bring in Darrell and Craig Scott to speak at several rallies at our church.  Darrell is Rachel Scott’s father and Craig is her brother.  Craig and Rachel were both in the library when the two gunmen came in and began their shooting spree.  Craig survived the shootings, but sadly, Rachel did not.

However, it seems that a whole lot of good has happened from this trajedy.  Darrell started a crusade across America to prevent what happened at Columbine for ever happening again.  You can check out their organization here.  Her brother is an amazing young man that is the video director for the organization.

I remember that week of “Columbine Redemption” rallies like it was yesterday.  It is hard to believe that it was almost a decade ago.  The beautiful thing about the Lord is that He always seems to help bring beauty out of trajedy.  That is the gospel–namely that God took me and my mess and is making “all things new.” What was cool was that God used Rachel’s testimony to help many students find Christ in the Springfield area. We hate for tragedy to happen, but we know that a soveriegn God who “holds all things in his hands” will bring glory to his name.  Much like the statement in John 11, the tragedy of Lazarus’ death was to “bring Glory to God.”  As we see photos and video of the Columbine tragedy, let us remember to thank God for his soveriegnty and his redemptive purpose in all of our lives.

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At this time 8 years ago, I was just getting back to the hospital from a pretty crazy afternoon.  Jenny was teaching K-12 vocal music at Clever, MO and was gearing up for her spring concert.  It was the day after Easter…Tax Day that year.  I had made the trip out to Clever to take something to Jenny for her concert that was coming up.  A fellow teacher came over to me and said, “I think Jenny needs to go to the hospital, but she won’t do it.”  She thought that the “back pain” Jenny was having was actually contractions.  Jenny obviously has a high pain tolerance we would soon find out.

I got a call from Jenny’s teacher friend about 3:15-3:30 informing me that I was to meet Jenny at the hospital.  She was going to drive herself to the hospital…and she couldn’t call herself because her cell phone battery was dead!  In less than an hour, at 4:33 p.m., Taylor Quinn entered in the world via emergency C-section.  My buddy Brad Daily rushed home to get my cameras and the “dads” went to take Jenny’s car back home.  My dad still to this day gives Jenny a hard time that her car was on fumes when she pulled into the hospital…and her cell phone battery was dead–not a good combination.

We are so grateful for you Taylor Quinn!  You are a great young man that loves other people and is such a good boy!  We are so proud of you and love you so much!

Here are some pictures of his “first round” of gifts…the “official” party doesn’t happen until Saturday.