Article August 29, 2011 Issue

From csmonitor.com

Reprinted from The Christian Science Monitor: With love to Oslo

Dorrit Kjær Christiansen

On July 22, a young man carried out an apparently well-crafted plan to communicate his personal political opinions, resulting in many people being killed, most of whom were teenagers and young men and women.

I live in Denmark and was staying in a summer house on the west coast of Jutland when the tragedy occurred. The house has no television—and not even a radio—because the owners are busy people who need a quiet retreat from time to time.

One of my sons had brought his iPod with him, and when the connection was clear, he kept us updated. We all became silent, asking ourselves, and, after a while, asking one another, Why? I started to pray for all of us, for all the people in Oslo, and for the world.

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