It is All Personal

Sometimes the news is overwhelming. We have a 24/7 news cycle. We have tv, internet, twitter ~ a thousand and one ways of hearing, learning and if we let ourselves, being overwhelmed by the enormity of the problems of the world. And then we hear of some small personal tragedy and realize that it is all personal.

Yesterday a young man (25 years old) in Carson City, NV where my daughter and family live, hung himself in a public park.

Those are all the facts I know at this time. It is not an event that will set off a revolution or cause governments to crumble. It is an event that will touch the heart of a mother, a family, and even a community as people ask why? What might we have done? What can we learn from this so that our children and young people remain safe?

One small tragedy. One small tragedy occurring all over this country and the world over and over again. Suicide, accident, illness ~ lives taken much, much too soon, before the potential for life is able to be played out in its fullness.

~ with blessings and hope for every child