Tragedy

On Friday after hearing about the tragedy that unfolded at Sandy Hook Elementary, all I could think about was it could have been me or any one of us that lost a child in this horrible crime.  We decided to tell our 5 year old son a little about it so that when he went to school on Monday(tomorrow) that he would have good knowlege of what happened.  We obviously did not tell him all the graphic details that the media seems to feed upon.

What happened to only the families knowing how many times someone has been shot or what kind of rifle that was used.  Are we a society that is so hungry for instant gratification of knowlege that we cannot take a step back and realize that we do not need our children or even that matter that we need to know every horrifiying graphic detail.

Today in church our pastors wife told us about how when tragedies happened when here children were young that she did not tell her kids that everything would be ok.  She told that that just like your teacher leads you out for a fire drill or any drill for that matter that God will lead you in that same way and that you need to trust him like you would that teacher.

I have seen a ton of posts on Facebook about gun control and other things, we need to be supportive to the people that lost there family members on Friday.  We need to look at the way the world is and we need to Run, not walk, back into the arms of the Lord.  We need to pray everyday for our childrens safety and we need to trust that God will do that and if something happens we need to trust in the Lord and have faith that he will see us through

Signing off.

Meredith