On This Day...

On this day...

I remember the horrific day in Newtown, CT when so many young lives were lost at Sandy Hook School.

I remember all of the nights this past year that I have made a second stop in Luke's room before I head to bed while thinking about the families in Newtown who didn't get the opportunity to tuck their babies into bed.  

I honor the life of our friends' baby girl who only graced this world with her presence for eight months and was called home today.

I am reminded that all of the firsts I've shared with Nora, our friends will never experience with their daughter.

I do not claim to understand why our second grader is still alive and safe while twenty others from Newtown are not.  Nor do I understand why our baby was born strong and healthy while our friends' daughter was born with a disability.

This is the stuff of life that simply cannot be explained.  I am grateful though that there is comfort in our hope and in community.

Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.  

~Matthew 5:4

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:

a time to be born and a time to die,

a time to plant and a time to uproot,

a time to kill and a time to heal,

a time to tear down and a time to build,

a time to weep and a time to laugh,

a time to mourn and a time to dance,

a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,

a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,

a time to search and a time to give up,

a time to keep and a time to throw away,

a time to tear and a time to mend,

a time to be silent and a time to speak,

a time to love and a time to hate,

a time for war and a time for peace.

~Ecclesiastes 3

Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn.  

~Romans 12:15

On this day, I mourn with those who mourn.