A Nation Left Speechless
There are no words to explain the tragedy of the massacre of children in Newtown, Connecticut.
A friend who lost her son to cancer once told me that there are orphans and widows, but there is no word to neatly define or identify a parent who has lost a child because there is no one word that can convey the enormity of such pain. What of those parents in Newtown, Connecticut whose children were mindlessly massacred? How do we come to know their pain? Friday began as an ordinary day for them. The mundane repetitive morning routine of waking up, brushing teeth, eating breakfast with a rushed kiss goodbye to children who were just a few years away from having taken their first baby steps. These children have not been lost, they have been removed. Removed before they had the chance to plan and plot the course of their lives; removed …
