Welcome to the first day of September, as August is now behind us.
There’s a quote by Albert Einstein that says, “The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is all comprehensible.”
This past Wednesday, on August 27, 2025, it was Incomprehensible that I could not believe after seeing the news on television.
It was another Church shooting and hate crime since June 17, 2015. My mind raced back to the last one in Charleston, South Carolina, where nine people were killed during a Bible study at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, the oldest black church in the Southern United States.
This one was in Minneapolis, where Mass was underway Wednesday morning to mark the beginning of the academic year at Annunciation Catholic School, when bullets started to come through the glass.
The shooter killed two students and wounded more than a dozen other people, and then took his own life.
Annunciation Catholic Church holds first Mass since deadly Minneapolis school shooting
It was another active shooter incident, killing innocent people attending Mass at a Catholic Church.
We continue to hear of incidents involving active shooters; however, it’s incomprehensible in my mind to kill children attending Mass.
Today, we can’t or won’t even try to second-guess why the shooter chose young children, because dead men tell no stories except the journals they leave behind.
When you and I think of a church, it’s a sacred place, which many thought, me included, was incomprehensible, yet this past week killing children in a Church tops it all.
Yes, it’s a cowardly act that leaves us speechless.
My heart goes out to all the families sending them condolences who lost their child in this senseless shooting. Having sat in the pews observing and participating in Mass while the children attending our local Catholic school exercise their faith, this incomprehensible act I know, has now left these children wondering about their safety attending Mass.
Something else incomprehensible is the untimely death of Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who tragically passed away due to drowning while swimming with his 8-year-old daughter. Many of us grew up watching him on the Cosby Show.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner’s Official Cause Of Death Revealed – Inckredible
What is also incomprehensible is how our nation continues to remain divided by the use of power, as seen recently in the United States by our current sitting President.
That use of power has revoked the Secret Service for Kamala Harris and deployed National Guardsmen as Military Power in Chicago and Baltimore.
Trump revokes Secret Service protection for Kamala Harris
Trump’s threat to deploy troops to Chicago draws criticism from city, state officials
Illinois Gov. Pritzker says sending troops to Chicago would be an “invasion”
Understanding that those in uniform must obey the orders of their Commander in Chief, however, one would expect the leaders around President Trump would give him sound counsel and advice.
In the past eight months, we have learned too many lessons on what America has been through since the inauguration in 2025. Eight months ago, we saw the implementation of long-threatened tariffs, which have plunged the country into trade wars abroad. We have nearly 10% of the federal workforce being forced out, and now an increase in the number of deportations of undocumented immigrants, with Immigration judges and lawyers being targeted for following established procedures.
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Something else that was incomprehensible was the Metro train rider in D.C who tried to take the weapon of a Guardsman this past Friday. Luckily, there were no fatalities in this incident.
I’m not second-guessing the president; however, anytime you place weapons in the hands of Military personnel, then you are expecting to use them at some point.
As we celebrate Labor Day, what was incomprehensible years ago was how sweatshops and child labor were common among businesses.
Today, we are reminded of when “child labor was outlawed under the Fair Labor Standards Act. They are a sobering reminder of why the nation marks Labor Day.”
The blood and sweat behind Labor Day | CNN
Now, as Artificial Intelligence (AI) is more known and used, we wait and see what jobs AI will replace during this Labor Day, as AI is incorporated into businesses.
What Jobs Will AI Replace? | Built In
Today, as you start your week, I challenge you to think about all the “incomprehensible” things that have happened just in the past three months while counting your blessings in the process.
Remember, “The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is all comprehensible.” ~ Albert Einstein
“What Einstein meant when he said this was that this world or universe is not easy to understand or readily comprehensible, but it has been understood over a period of time and will be understood as time passes.”
Blog source: https://mckinleysthoughts.com/incomprehensible/
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