I work in the public school system. Over the weekend we had a tragedy in our community and I just feel I need to talk about it. I live in the same town that I grew up in, so I know everyone and this has really affected me. On Saturday a young mother loads her car with her son, her neice and two of their friends to go to the movies. As they are are on the Interstate something happens and her car leaves the road and travels down a steep embankment, goes airborne and slams into a creek bank. Three of the kids were ejected and one was left trapped in the car in the creek. The mother and her neice were pronounced dead at the scene. Her son had to be airlifted to LSU with multiple injuries(his dad has assured us that he is going to be ok), another girl was airlifted to the Childrens Hopsital in Little Rock(after 4 surgeries in 6 hours she should be ok) and the other boy was taken to a local hospital with minor injuries. My nephew had been a daddy figure to the girl that was killed since she was about 5, she was 11. She called him daddy on her facebook page. He had just dropped her at her aunts right before the accident. Tonight I had to stand with him by the casket of this child and watch as his heart was completely torn out. These kids are in our school, these families are all members of the community and we are all suffering. We got word this morning that the great nephew of two of our teachers died this morning. He was 7 months old and didn't wake up this morning. Not sure why I felt compelled to tell you this story except for the fact that my heart hurts tonight and I am very sad.
Sometimes I get so caught up in the terrible disease that I have that I forget that the suffering of this world far outweighs my little trials that I am going through. Tomorrow is the double funeral. We will be bussing the 5th grade class that wants to go to the service. Please pray.
Thanks for listening.