Image source: Heather McCloskey Beck’s Photos on facebook.
“How can anyone do that?” my 15-year old daughter asked me today, to which I had no easy answer to give.
She is 15 now, not 5; I can’t sugar coat bad news anymore and I can’t honestly tell her that everything is OK, because they are not OK. No one is OK tonight, knowing that 20 parents cannot hug their babies and tuck them in to bed.
Tonight, we pray for everyone affected by this, another horrific and senseless tragedy.
Tonight, we grieve with the whole community of Newtown, Connecticut for the loss of their loved ones.
Tonight, we hug our girls just a little tighter along with many parents nationwide who are also holding on to their loved ones after the tragedy.
And tonight, as a mom, I add my tears and outrage of this event. I pray and wish and hope that it won’t happen again, even as I know that it probably will.
And I feel selfish and guilty as I silently add, “please, not my kids”…
But I know, that prayer too, is a tenuous hope.
But when our heart is breaking, our only hope is to pray…pray that everything will be OK.
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I feel very sorry for all those parents and teachers’ relatives(( no one deserves to feel that. When we say we live in a democratic country with human rights and obligations, no one wants to die just like that, because someone was crazy enough to buy weapons and shoot children..
All those kids had dreams and wishes for Christmas.. A man took them all. I don’t care what party my President represents! I did these things to be stopped!
For all of life going through a lot of feelings. Feeling of a broken heart is often