Last week was awful in many ways.\u00a0 I recently blogged about the Boston bombing but that was Monday!\u00a0 What happened after was even more surreal.\u00a0 Watching the media folks fall all over themselves trying to make a story when there wasn’t a story yet was irritating.\u00a0 How many ways can you repeat the same thing without adding anything to the conversation?\u00a0 Then, something happened, they put video and photographic data together and found suspects.\u00a0 The manhunt was very disturbing.\u00a0 I’m not sure what was worse, knowing that someone had put horrible bombs down beside innocent people and walked away or that the search for the suspects led to an insane exchange of weapons firing with Boston locked down. It was like watching a crazy movie but it was real. Is Congress watching?\u00a0 Gun control would be helpful now!<\/p>\n
I found myself feeling anxious, and ill at ease.\u00a0 I wanted to be near my husband to feel safer.\u00a0 These young men were very effective terrorists.\u00a0 I, for one, was scared.\u00a0 I wasn’t in Boston but I was so distressed I’m sure my level of health decreased for the week.\u00a0 I had to cry.\u00a0 Then the faces of the suspects seemed so normal.\u00a0 Over and over you heard people who knew them say they would never have believed this behavior possible from them.\u00a0 As the information is coming in it seems there may be more to this than we thought.\u00a0 I’m sure we will be hearing about this for a long time.<\/p>\n
I prayed a lot this week for the families of those killed, for the people in the Boston Marathon, for people living in the area, and for peace.\u00a0 I needed some peace.\u00a0 As I write this I am thinking of 4 deaths at our church.\u00a0 It has been a time of great loss. I have faith and it gives me comfort even in the sadness, the fear, the pain. \u00a0 God’s love gets me through.\u00a0 Keep praying!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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