And of course, there are those tragedy vultures who swoop in and begin their Anti-American hate tirades instead of offering up prayers or hope, so I find myself swinging bipolar-like between desperate sadness and anger. When I turned to FB or Twitter to talk with friends (since the Hubby is in his emotional cave), the shared feelings of desperate longing to bubble wrap our children is sadly peppered with those who feel disgust for our nation because apparently, this is what we as Americans ask for.I know I didn't ask for this. My views of gun laws may not be your views of gun laws, but I can't imagine any of us would ever want 20 precious children to die along with innocent adults. So can we just leave the politics out of it? Just for a little while, can we come together and grieve for these poor families whose Christmas trees shelter wrapped presents for babies who are never coming home?
I keep thinking about the mornings I send my little whirlwinds out of here with nothing but an exasperated kiss and less-than-sincere, "Have a great day" followed by a plop down into a chair in exhaustion. I swore yesterday that I would never do that again. No matter how much they bicker or annoy each other just before the school transport comes, they will get a mother who is fully present.
Some of us woke up very blessed this morning and will still have little hands cutting paper snowflakes and little faces glowing at the thought of surprises awaiting them under the tree, may God comfort those who won't. #prayforNewtown
I pray too...still in shock here and numb
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SUeAnn
Thanks SueAnn, hugs back to you xx
DeleteI keep wondering what kind of monster could look into the face of a sweet, innocent child... and kill them. Watch them as they took the light from their eyes. How can any human being do that? I am horrified beyond belief. How does someone end up that monstrous? Worse yet, how many ticking time bombs do we have out there, waiting to explode? How did we come to this?
ReplyDeleteI know, just sick. It took a horrible, horrible sick mind to do this. I've got my suspicions how we got to this point, but that's a whole different rant.
DeleteSuch a sad situation. I have two nieces in Syracuse and it even left my brother in law holding his breath until he got them home.
ReplyDelete*hug* my thoughts are with those families, i cannot even fathom the reasoning behind it, and no one will ever really know.
I'm betting a lot of children got the most affection they ever have received when their schools broke out yesterday. Mine were finished with their days and nearly in bed when we got the news and I pulled them back out of bed and put them into mine. Glad you are all ok.
DeleteWe must assume some kind of mental illness here. Which doesn't make this any less distressing but relieves us of the perpetual question "How could anyone do such a thing". I was very perturbed to hear that the guns were purchased by his mother. If true, I have a much harder time understanding that.
ReplyDeleteYou have to wonder why she needed to have such a collection and perhaps why they weren't locked up? And he had to have shown warning signs, right? But we'll never know. I do feel horrible for her as well as her last thoughts were on the child she gave birth to holding a gun on her. Such a tragedy.
DeleteI understand your hurt and anger. I share it. The horror we feel at losing these sweet babies along with their educators and accompanying sympathy for their families is not mutually exclusive of wanting things to change quickly in order to prevent it happening as frequently as has been occurring lately. It's neither anti-American, nor vulture-like. I, like you, like most everyone with a heart do not want to see this happen again. Something needs to change so that the risk is minimized. Believe it or not, that is very pro our fine neighbours to the south.
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ReplyDeleteSorry Hilary, my first reply belonged up top. Blogger hates mobile Apple products. Thanks for your reply and sharing your thoughts. I promise you, the people who post in my Twitter feed do NOT feel as you do towards my country and it wasn't inferred statements either. They specifically attacked America, the people, the government. I did call a few out on their comments and surprisingly managed to have an intelligent discussion with one. Since some of these people have only just stopped posting about our election (???), I did feel they were very vulture-like by jumping on the first anti-American platform they could to point out the 'sins of America'.
DeleteI agree that something needs to change, the problem is we all can't agree on what exactly that something is.
I am absolutely shredded.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful thoughts. It's so horrible and unimaginable. I do not understand it. I keep searching for the whys, like I just want to make sense of it somehow, but of course there never will be any making sense of it, will there?
ReplyDeleteHang in there. I know I hope I can hang on to the powerful reminder of how truly precious my children are.
We are no longer a civilized society. We can't even talk about serious issues without hatred and anger. No one can have differing opinions. Hatred is everywhere. This is a scary world we are living in right now.
ReplyDeleteI want to take my children and run away to a little island in the middle of nowhere. Is that too extreme?
Such a horrible tragedy. I can't bear to think about it. So much sadness.
ReplyDeleteToday marks six days and I'm still as shocked by the whole thing as I was Friday. I think I read that there's six more funerals planned for today. Something like nine yesterday.
ReplyDeleteIt was hard to take the kids to school Monday (just enough nutjobs out there to copy-cat something like this). I mentioned that fact to Jason's sweet, sweet teacher; and she of course tried to assure me she'd do everything in her power to protect my child (goes without saying). I had to give her a hug and tried to express to her how much I appreciate her (not sure I expressed that very well, as I was choking back tears). My prayer is that she'll NEVER, ever have to be put into that position.
Oh, and the politics. I hate that. Who's to blame? So much finger pointing.
ReplyDeleteThere needs to be change across the board, I think.