Sad Post

This is a sad post. Don’t feel you have to read today. I just have to have somewhere to get this out.

When I was teaching, I worked with a fellow teacher who had a daughter, Sherry. Sherry taught third grade like Mollie. We often compared our daughter’s experiences. Yesterday morning, we found out that Sherry had fallen down the stairs at her condo and broken her neck. A friend found her dead Tuesday evening. I can’t stop thinking about her, she was only in her early thirties. She was friends with LJ and Collin. I can’t stop thinking about them, about her mom and even about her students. I’m sure many of these little eight-year-olds have never experienced death before. It’s just so shocking and sad.

Then in the afternoon comes the news of the school shooting in Florida. There is nothing I can say about that – it’s too horrifying.

But two interviews have stayed on my mind. One mother was interviewed who said she had four sons at that school. She had heard from three of them, but not the forth.

Then I heard a phone interview with a seventeen-year-old boy. He told what he had seen and then they asked him how he was. His answer was, “I’m fine. I’m with my mom.”

That got to me and I finally started crying. He knew he was safe, he was fine, because he was with his mom.

I’m praying for all the families and friends who lost loved one yesterday. The ones I know and the ones I don’t.