Today we were reminded with a terrible tragedy just how incredibly fragile our lives are. To wake up to the news that can be found on any website at the moment (msn)... my heart is not only weighing a million tons, but broken as well. I don't know that I really can put into words the way I feel about this situation, 20 children's lives taken and seven adults. The harming of the innocent is never easy, but these babes still had their entire lives ahead of them. They went to school today to learn and have fun with their friends, possibly not far from Christmas Break with their families. Heart broken. The largest school shooting since a gunman at Virginia Tech killed thirty two. No one deserves this.
This is the second public shooting in less than a week. Not only that, we've had the movie theater shootings this year as well. This is absolutely horrendous. As a country whom prides themselves on leading the way for many others, we have some third world country acts that are painting a very different picture of us to the rest of the world. How can we be off telling other countries how to better themselves, when a classroom of five year old children aren't even safe at school.
There is absolutely no way for me to really articulate my feelings. I'm trying, but I'm so full of anguish and sorrow for these families, misunderstanding and anger for the gunman, and fear for our future. The shootings that have taken place this year have claimed so many lives, so many innocent lives. They've also taken place in settings where you or I would go any day and feel safe. What do we do? How do we go forward without living in fear that this might happen to us or our children? HOW do we tell our children to trust that the world is a safe place? Do we now need to be teaching our four year old children what to do in such situations? When I was a child, I just had to say no to strangers offering lollipops in their cars... and that was the scariest thing in the world to me. I never had to think that something harmful and potentially deadly could happen to me at school.
Here I've been afraid of losing my husband to leukemia and today's events have reminded me how completely unpredictable life is and how the most unforeseeable things can take place in the unlikeliest of places.
Today and this Holiday Season, my heart is going out to all of those struck by tragedy this year.
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