This week was long and hot and slow, and filled with so much sad and horrific news, my heart feels really heavy. My goal is for this blog to be a happy and inspiring place, but since so much of it revolves around parenting and family, and since the state of our country and our world makes me wonder how I will ever explain what we are current facing to my daughter, I couldn’t bring myself to post a typical review of the week.
Instead, I can’t help but think of the mothers and fathers and sons and daughters and aunts and uncles and friends and colleagues who have lost loved ones in the many, many acts of violence that happened this week across the country. When a four year old little girl is comforting her mother from her carseat, telling her ‘It’s ok mommy, It’s ok I’m right here with you’ after her mother’s fiance has been shot and killed in their car, right there, how can your heart not break into a million pieces? How is that a country we can feel proud and safe to live in?
I wish I had a solution that would fix everything. It’s hard to wake up each day to more news like this – senseless shootings, people losing loved ones, hate, anger – and I struggle everyday wondering how I will explain these things to my daughter. When I look at her sweet face so full of wonder and curiosity and goodness, I wonder when it is that people become filled with hate and anger. How does that happen? How can we stop it?
I hope and pray for more peace in our world, and I am so thankful for the brave men and women who fight everyday and try their best to keep us safe. In the meantime, hug your family close and display kindness and compassion and love whenever and however you can.
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