I have no words--just harsh, disbelieving shock. Small children--eighteen by some counts, twenty by others--were murdered today in a Connecticut school. The killer was a twenty-year old man, barely an adult. His mother, who worked at the school, was among the murdered.
I remember the Columbine tragedy so clearly--I was in high school then. It sent a shockwave through all of us. Those kids were our age. But elementary school children? Kids barely older than my daughter? How does one speak to this in any sufficient way? Over and over today, I've hugged my daughter and cried and cried. It hurts so much, the thought of those children, their siblings, their parents. I don't know how to pray today.
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