The tragedy that took place on Friday in Connecticut has many of us wondering why it happened, will they ever recover and how will they move forward? No one can truly imagine what the pain feels like for all of those involved.
26 innocent lives lost, 20 children and 6 ladies who were just trying to do their job of educating our young. It does not make sense. It will never make sense. It struck home to way to many families who unfortunately have been through similar tragedies. It has caused parents everywhere to hug their children tighter on Friday. You may have put up with a little temper tantrum that on any other day would have caused you to not be happy with your little ones. You hopefully decided to do something good with a random act of kindness that will spread to others.
I hope that the families who are impacted by this tragedy will begin to heal and know that there are so many people who are praying and thinking of you all. I cannot imagine, I am grateful for my little peoples who bring so much joy to our lives. I have tried to be more patient with my family over the last couple of days and just be glad that I have a little one who may disagree with me. I have not let the rude lady at the Kroger deli make me be a bad person, she is the one who thinks something happened and will have to live with her words, I on the other hand took the high road. I hope that others too remember what is truly important in life, it should not take something like this happening to make us do that but sometimes it does.
I have not shared with my children what has happened, we have not let them watch the news. I am not sure how I would answer all of their questions but they will one day learn that there are bad things that happen in this world and we cannot change what may happen. There is a plan which is laid for all of us and we may not agree with the path but our path has been chosen for a reason.
Right now we are working on (in Maggie's words) "the real meaning of Christmas" and I am grateful that is where their focus is so that we do not have to discuss what has happened. I just do not think their little heads need to know as I worry it will make them afraid to enter kindergarten next year.
But we will pray for everyone involved. Their little prayers are powerful.
It sucks, there is not really much else to describe it but I hope they all begin to find peace and know that they have many prayers and thoughts coming their way.
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