With a social networking site such as facebook it is easy for news to spread fast. Usually it is something such as "Lauren and Samual are now in a relationship" or "I can't believe the Bachelor didn't choose her!!!!!!" Today I got on and saw numerous posts on my home feed about a tragedy: the 37 year-old mother of two students from my old high school was killed in a car accident. I am in shock just thinking about this.
West Central is a small school with about one hundred students in each grade. The town of Hartford has a population of just under two thousand, I believe. Needless to say, everybody knows everybody and everything. On the two kids's facebook walls there are numerous posts of prayers and condolences. Some from their close friends, some by people who just know they by association. This is surely a horror that will affect the whole town.
My Uncle Chad actually gave me a call this evening to ask me about what had happened. I of course did not know any details, but shared what knowledge I had read. He lives in Sioux Falls but had heard about it and figured I might know more because I had gone to school with them.
I don't know what to say. I feel absolutely awful. It was all so sudden. How does stuff like this happen? How are her kids supposed to carry on the rest of their school year, let alone the rest of their lives? When something as awful and heart-wrenching as this happens, what is it that keeps us going when all we want to do is curl up in a little ball and cry our eyes out? I just want to do something for them. I want to help. There is nothing I can do. I cannot fix this or console them. I can pray. I can ask God to be the one to hold them and carry them through. Even so, there is still so much pain. This makes me feel so sick and helpless.
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