And It Happened Right Before Christmas

Yesterday, in Connecticut, a 20 year old killed 27 people at an elementary school. An elementary school. How sick is that? I can't imagine.

I heard this on the way home from work and became so sickened by it that I found it difficult to drive home after that. I felt such sorrow and grief.

I pictured it in my mind. Young, innocent children attending just another day of school. Minding their own business. Thinking about recess, how boring school is, dreaming of Christmas morning, giggling over silly things like odd body sounds. And then 20 of them had their lives taken from them along with 6 of their teachers or other adults at the school before the gunman took his own life.

How awful. How traumatic. Those poor, poor families that lost children. The siblings that lost their brother or sister. The classmates traumatized by seeing their peers killed.

It is simply awful. Tragic. Horrible.

It is overwhelming to me that such a thing happened to children.

Murder.

I can't imagine the struggles of those parents and siblings and spouses of people that worked there. I know some of the pain the parents feel but not the pain of my child being murdered. Mine died because of a most stupid and tragic accident. An accident. Not someone purposefully killing my child.

Oh God. How awful this is. Comfort those families and people that are so hurt by this. Bring peace. Bring your Presence. Bring your strength for them to go on. Bring Your healing.

How sad.

This is hard to grasp.

And it all happened right before Christmas. How very hard and impossible this Christmas will be now. And how trying this time of year will always be for those people. I think December is a difficult month. How much more for these people now.

May this not ruin anyone touched by this but, eventually, make them stronger.