How Great Thou Art

This evening, as I sit here after listening to the stories of the victims trickling in and more details of this horrific unspeakable act in Newtown, CT at Sandy Hook Elementary, its so familiar because it could truly happen to any of us in any Elementary School, day care, or really anywhere that an individual is motivated to bring harm to others.  I have been flashing back to Friday morning, actually my husband letting me sleep in with our youngest child & him getting the kids ready for school...I did not tell them bye and had no idea of what they wore to school.  The reason of even bringing this up is thinking of these families that have had to identify their babies with the Coroner and putting myself in the situation, possibly some of the victims families may of had this same scenario & the amount of guilt that myself as a mother would have if those were my babies that were lost.

Let these families mourn, allow them to know it's okay to be angry, to feel unimaginable pain/shock/loss, honor these victims and do not speak the name of the perpetrator who brought all of this senseless act upon their loved ones.  The next days until these families are allowed to bury their loved ones and have an ounce of closure, it doesn't matter how they will recover, how they go on, gun control, and any other subjects that absolutely are imperative to be addressed, however, not now!

Now let us all honor the victims and survivors of Sandy Hook Elementary.  20 babies lost their lives and 7 adults, 6 of which are compassionate women that chose not only a career as an educator but from all reports were very passionate about their chosen profession of educating children.  The first stage has to be about the individuals that lost their lives and must not focus on the negative, we know there is so much ugly to come out, right now allow loved ones to tell beautiful stories of these beautiful individuals that lost their lives.

No parent should never/ever have to bury their child, all that were lost were someones child!  But the twenty 6 & 7 year olds were just babies and their future was ripped from them.

Robbie Parker, father of Emilie Parker 6 years old that lost her beautiful little at Sandy Hook, said such amazing words of honesty to paraphrase he said "I do not know how to deal with the loss of Emilie"  it was raw, honest, and heartbreaking.  We all just need to pray, think positive thoughts, and reach out to this community allowing them to process the aftermath of this horrific moment in time.

A hymn brought so beautifully "How Great Thou Art" is painful and yet comforting on this evening of such sorrow.

Honor the victims, their fellow surviving classmates, and educators of Sandy Hook Elementary for they have truly experienced hell on Earth.

FAITH in a higher power is all we truly have....lean on whatever your chosen faith is.