Last evening's multi-denominational prayer vigil in Newtown, CT was both appropriate and emotionally moving. It was nice to hear prayers, rather than platitudes. We all know that this tragedy will take a long time to assimilate, and many people will never "get over it" no matter how hard they try to do just that. We all do what we all have to do, and that's get out of bed, put our feet on the floor, and start moving through one more day at a time. Someday, we'll be able to accept that we cannot change what happened, but we have to continue to live with it for as long as we live.
However, the constant reference to the "26 souls" lost in the massacre leaves me wondering about the 27th soul, the mother whose son shot her to death as she lay in her bed on that terrible day. Is ignoring her death deliberate? Is she somehow less worthy of mourning than the other 26 who died at the killer's hand? Her family, her surviving son, her friends mourn her death, so why is she publicly being excluded from mourning as one of the victims of her son's tragic actions?
Let's offer a prayer for the 27th soul, the first victim of the "school shooting" at Newtown, CT.
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