I don't have words,
Just an ache inside my soul
Helpless,
Just like everyone else.
All I can give,
All I have to offer
Are prayers
For comfort,
For a community of support.
An unpenetrable wall of love
To surround those families.
Be with them, Lord.
The unthinkable has happened
Again.
Those of us who believe words are what we live by are speechless tonight.
Florence – I had no words and borrowed Kitts’ — my many thanks to Kitt for her beautiful expressions.
I am not at all surprised that you posted this, Sheri, since you have demonstrated your extreme caring for others in everything you write. I, too, am so very, very sad.
Patti
Patti – I believe I’ve seen you on Kitt’s blog with remarks. Her ability to express herself through words and music feeds my soul on even the darkest of days.
Thanks, my friend…I fear the words aren’t adequate, but hopefully convey the loving intent.
Kitt – Your words are exquisitely conveyed and music precisely selected – thank you. My soul was hungry and I felt desperate. I reached for my faith and your post arrived.
Sheri…I saw your so, so generous words this morning…It brought tears and touched my heart to know God used me as a tool for you yesterday. You’ll never know how much your comments on here mean to me.
Thank you for sharing this with us. They are everyone’s thoughts captured by a true artist.
Patricia – Thanks for stopping by. I’ll be firing up my advocacy on gun control.
The poem does a nice job of capturing my feelings. Yesterday was a very sad day.
Sheryl – Yes indeed, I think yesterday easily qualifies for the worst of times. Thinking of your grandmother’s journal of 100 years ago, I can’t imagine there’s a single entry where this type of random violence occurred.
Helpless indeed. Such a horrible tragedy. My heart goes out to the families, friends and the entire community. It is almost unimaginable.
Unimaginable, and it still happened.
Hi Sheri. One of the saddest things about this tragedy is that we will likely see it happen again in some form. People that want to murder children suffer from severe mental illness. Like most nations we have no serious mental health system. I am frustrated that this tragedy occurred and that with a small bit of health care the killer might have been easily prevented from going on his rampage.
We can not go back in time and prevent that tragedy but we CAN prevent the next one. When we reach out to help a desperately ill person we can not know what we have prevented but we can know that we helped someone.
Thanks for stopping by. I have several mental health blogs and will have more in the near future. While our mental health care is seriously lacking, we can also only care for those that desire to be helped. The parent, in this particular situation knew her son had serious problems yet purchased weapons and even included her son in going to the range to learn how to use them. I wonder if he received praise when he hit his target? Perhaps if we put a luxury tax on weapons, increased the difficulty of obtaining them, and made gun shows illegal; perhaps we would have fewer mass shootings. At the present time, there’s nothing keeping a mentally ill individual from buying any type of weapon, to include an automatic, if they haven’t committed a felony.