Dec. 15, 2012
It really doesn't matter if you walk, jog, run or
stroll today, the most important thing is to hug your kids.
The horrific shooting deaths at a Connecticut
elementary school on Friday remind us all how fragile and fleeting life can be.
Every day we take a collection of small actions and activities for granted, not
realizing how quickly your life can be changed, or a loved one taken away.
Hug your kids today.
Every time one of these tragedies happens -- and
they seem to be happening all too often these days -- someone is quick to move
the conversation off the tragic events of the day and on to issues such as gun
control or mental health.
I don't claim to have the answers. All I know is
that people died in a senseless tragedy, and there will be time enough for
finger pointing and ridicule down the road. Today we need to mourn the loss and
help those that need comfort, protection and healing.
Hug your kids today.
Everybody always says something like this can
never happen in their quiet corner of the world -- and then it does. Nearly
every community is somehow defined by a tragedy that lives on beyond its
usefulness in whispers and hushed tones.
Good people get shot. Diseases strike down
hearty, healthy friends and relatives. Buses full of kids are involved in
crashes. Tragedy defines us all.
Hug your kids today.
Sometimes we struggle to find logic in the
illogical. While our rational mind tells us that a child is safer in the
classroom than strapped in the backseat of a parent's car headed to school in
the morning, we hear about these mass tragedies and wonder what if. What if
someone had done something different that day?
Our desire to make everything safe and right
overwhelms what science, statistics and logic tell us to be true. But today is
not about logic, it's about comforting, mourning and healing.
Hug your kids today.
Regardless of where you live or where you're at
in life, run, walk, jog or move about to embrace the day.
Most importantly, hug your kids today.
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