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Pray – elementary school shooting in CT -26 dead incl 18 kids
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Pray for these families, teachers, school kids, etc.
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The same here… 🙁 I have been crying since I found out…had to stop class…I can’t even begin to imagine the pain these parents or even the teacher’s children are feeling! :'( praying for them!
Praying also for the living children who had to witness the horror…how tramatized they must be. So sad and praying here also……
I have been thinking the same thing as you, csmamma…the poor children who have to go on, and most of whom will be expected to return to school in the near future.
No formal lessons here today; just a lot of holding each other close and reading by the fire. Thank You, Lord, for my babies. Please comfort those parents whose arms are now empty.
I don’t cry often, but this has made me cry in prayer. So tragic.
May God grant peace to all of the victims and our nation. As our president said, “let’s hold our children a little tighter tonight.”
Cried with my family as we prayed for the parents, teachers, grandparents, and the town of Newtown, CT. How do you answer when your child asks, “Mommy, why would someone do that?”? I have no answers, no words, didn’t even really know what to pray. May God have mercy on all involved.
And sadly, that wasn’t the only school tragedy today – in your prayers, remember these families in China as well http://www.courant.com/sns-rt-us-china-stabbingsbre8bd065-20121213,0,5592318.story
Lindsey: this article is a very good one, it offers good advice in how to deal with this
Those poor children…I am grieving for those families and the community. I can’t even comprehend the horror of not having my five year old to hug right now.
The China report also made me cry. They so often are only allowed one child. Unimaginable, as my3boys said.
This is good advice from a local TV journalist:
I’m not a person who offers unsolicited advice, but as we wade through the Connecticut shooting story you may want to limit your consumption of the coverage. No matter how far removed we are from the actual scene, we all know a five year old. We have all been five. We can relate to the parents, siblings and children. Right now we know the Who, Where, What and When. The Why is beyond our comprehension. Dont even try. I dont want to dissuade you from watching news, but we are on the eve of an enormous wave of heart breaking information and images that will reach every family in this country. Keep it at arms length. The grief this heinous act
is producing can be overwhelming if you let it consume you.
KARK will cover this story, however our newscasts will not be saturated with images coming out of Connecticut day in and day out. NBC will provide us and you with ample information. We will keep an eye and ear on your local concerns in the days and weeks ahead. As a reporter, who has tried to navigate through the tragedy and heartbreak evil has left behind before…keep it all at arms length.
My dad (who rarely talks about his faith and has served in law enforcement for over 30 years) said it best, “You can’t see the horrible things that people do to children and NOT believe that there is real evil, and a real Devil.”
That is how to explain it to your kids.
Thank God that one day “Every eye will see, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord”. There is eventual victory through Christ.
But we ‘weep with those who weep’ tonight, and pray that God can reach his loving arms of peace around them as they walk through this unimaginable suffering…
I told myself I was not going to watch the special news report on this tonight, but I somehow ended up watching some of it after all. I simply cried the whole time, then decided I’d heard enough for tonight.
One thing keeps coming to mind from three different national news reports I saw while flipping through the channels: all three of these newscasts were set up adjacent to churches, and all three made mention of the fact that churches in the community were packed tonight. My fervent prayer (along with prayers for comfort for the victims’ families) has been that those who have been drawn to these houses of worship to mourn will ultimately draw near to the One who sees and knows their pain and loss from a Father’s perspective.
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