a time to mourn...
It has really taken me a while to mill this over before posting, changing and editing my thoughts endlessly. I am going to stop messing with it and just post it. Here it goes. I have been deeply and profoundly saddened recently by some news I recieved re: some friends of mine losing their 4-year-old child in a tragic accident. The last couple of months have been peppered with loss and this news catches me still in the middle of processing the loss of a friend after a long battle with breast cancer. It also comes at a time when I was processing the words attributed to Jesus in Matthew 10: 34- 39: "Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and one's foes will be members of one's own household. Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever loves son or d