Newtown

My friend, C called to tell me that God had laid it on her heart to create scrapbooks to give to the families that lost their children in the Newtown, CT school shootings. 20 children gone. So that last few weeks I have been eking out time to go create these books - 20 pages per scrapbook - with my girlfriends. I have done Allison's album and am now working on Jesse's. Each page created with the hope that someday, sometime these children's parents will place their child's photos on these pages and be reminded of the joy and laughter and wonder that their child was. That in the remembering the will be blessing and healing through tears. I imagine that each of the pages will also include tear stained splotches that will only enhance the beauty of the finished product. And if these precious children's parents are never able to use these books, I pray that they will find some measure of comfort in the thought that we remembered their child. I have never felt this type of grief and can only imagine what dark roads it must take their moms and dads on. My heart and prayers go out to them.