What is just as great a mystery is how people have responded in the aftermath. Some teachers and students are undergoing counseling, struggling just to make it through each day when they have to walk the same halls where they saw so much blood and felt so much pain only a year ago. On the other hand, most Columbine teachers and students are functioning well. The school itself has reopened. Teachers make assignments and cover their lessons.
Students go to class, write their papers and finish their homework.
They laugh and play and look forward to graduation. They are scarred, but they are alive in every sense of the word. That, too, is a mystery. That families in such pain can find the endurance and purpose to work for such a project is a mystery. Rachel Scott, for one, seemed to have a premonition that her life would be cut short, and instead of thinking she was going crazy took it as a sign that God had something special in mind for her.