Update From the Ryman

This just sent out from the Edwards camp:

Dear Nashville,

Due to the tragic campus shootings at Virginia Tech today, in place of his original event, John Edwards will now be holding a community service to honor the victims.

Doors will still open at 3:30pm.

We would like to use this time to come together and send our thoughts and prayers to the students and families of Virginia Tech.

John and Elizabeth sent the following message earlier today:

“We are simply heartbroken by the deaths and injuries suffered atVirginia Tech. We know what an unspeakable, life-changing momentthis is for these families and how, in this moment, it is hard tofeel anything but overwhelming grief, much less the love and support around you. But the love and support is there. We pray that these families, these students, and the entire Virginia Tech community know that they are being embraced by a nation. There is a Methodist hymnthat gave us solace in such a moment as this, and we repeat its final verse here, in hopes it will help these families, as it helped us:" ‘In our end is our beginning; in our time, infinity;In our doubt there is believing, in our life, eternity,In our death, a resurrection; at the last, a victory, Unrevealed until its season, something God alone can see.’

“Our dearest wish is that this day could start again, with the promise of these young people alive. Knowing that cannot be, our prayer is for God’s grace and whatever measure of peace can be reached on this terrible day.”