I read the news today, on my laptop like I do sometimes between patients. Today was different. Today as I laughed about goofy stuff with the girls I worked with, a gunman, 20 years old, walked into a school in Conn. and opened fire in a classroom full of 5 year old children. CHILDREN! BABIES! Children that at 5 years old, knows NO evil. Children that at 5 years old believes in the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, and Santa Claus.
Today was different.
Today 26 people lost their lives, 20 that were children.
I cant begin to understand. How can one person be so evil. I know there are people that say he was sick, and you know maybe he was but to me and my beliefs, it was PURE EVIL.
I pray for the families, for the children that had to step over their classmates as they rush for safety. I pray for the teachers that held those students close, as if they were their own and guarded them against so much evil and thank God that those children had someone to hold them. For the police officers that rushed into that building, that had no idea what was on the other side.
Today was different.
Today I thank God for my crazy, wild, roller coaster of a ride life with my children. I thank God! Today I am thankful as I read facebook, as I watch the news, that I constantly read or hear Jesus' name and the millions that are praying. Today I am thankful for that. Today, as mad as one of my daughters made me, I hugged her tighter! I hugged them all! I kissed them all! I told them I loved them. And inside I cried because I thought of the parents that couldn't do that.
Today was different.
