i feel like every other story is of some poor child (always almost exactly emma's age) who's been lost, stolen, abused, or worse... and i can't separate myself from their stories. i always personalize it, and my heart wanders to a place where it imagines life without emma.
tonight i saw the story of a sweet little girl, also exactly emma's age, who was playing in her backyard (in a house her family just moved into) and fell into the 10-inch opening of a septic tank whose cover was missing. her brother and daddy were playing football in the backyard, right there, while she was playing, and then she just disappeared... they reported her missing around 6:30 last night, and authorities found her, lifeless, in the tank early this morning. i don't know why it affected me so much, but i couldn't stop crying.
that poor family is spending tonight without their sweet girl. i can't imagine. i don't think i could breathe.
and although what happened to this precious girl last night was a horrible, tragic accident and not the act of an evil person, i can't help but think: what is it about all our sad news lately? has the world gotten that much worse, that it's now filled with evil people who do horrific things to sweet babies? is our media just buzz-crazy, completely callous to the way that details of these awful stories can affect people? or, because i'm a mother, have i just become much more aware and sensitive to anything that makes me fear the fact that i can't 100% protect my daughter forever, and that life is not promised to us?
i just feel sad now. sorry for such a depressing post...
my heart and prayers go out to the family of alisandra galvan.
2 comments:
Sara, I think it's more the later of your last paragraph. I think we are more sensitive to things we can relate to and to where we are at in our life. It's like the ears of our heart perk up when we hear of such things. I can certainly relate to what you are talking about.
I never watch the news anymore!!!! It is ALWAYS depressing.
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