I pray that each of you are safe.
My love and prayers to you and to the families that were harmed in today's tragedy.

God Bless you all,


Blondie

Thank you Blondie. It certainly is a sad day here in Britain. How anyone can have such contempt for human life I'll never know. Ordinary people just going about their normal everyday business. It's indescriminate slaughter, just horrifying.

I feel so bruised and weary and saddened.

The office where I work is just two blocks away from where the bus exploded. My office is at the back of the building, and I heard the explosion. My colleagues at the front could see clouds of smoke and dust as well. We have a lot of building work going on in the area, so at first we thought it must have been some sort of accident on a building site, but one of the main hospitals is just one block the other way, so we could see and hear the sirens and helicopters, even before we knew fully what was going on.

A colleague from another department has been badly injured.

We have been expecting something like this to happen in London, but it doesn't make it any better. I can't understand the mentality of the people who do this sort of thing.

Bowl of (slightly shaken) Petunias

Hi BoP,

I'm glad that you are safe, but sorry to hear about your colleague.
This is a very complex issue I think, and although half-expected, the reality is very shocking.

To think that the bombers came from ordinary families, working unseen among our communities for goodness knows how long is very scary. As is the thought that there could be many more working in this way now.

It feels like an invasion, a Civil war, that could divide us into little groups where paranoia and suspicion are rife. I pray this never happens, we have to try and understand what happened to make the bombers carry out their deplorable acts so that we can stop it happening again. I wonder if extremism happens because we are trying to be a democratic society, and that feedom to think and act allows it to happen? I don't know.

I remember the National Front marching in Bradford in 1976, and someone who did not agree with their views saying that they utterly condemmed their (NF)views, but would fight for the freedom for the Front to express them.

We really need to all pull together on this or the nation will divide I think