What is happening? In the last few days there have been a couple of horrific stories of women murdering innocent children that were under their care. The latest, which took place in the town I live in, involved a woman who took the life of her own child as well as another for whom she was babysitting. As a mom, my heart breaks for those poor women who left their children with someone they trusted; someone they thought of as family. As a woman, I'm trying to comprehend what could possibly have happened to these women who committed these heinous acts to bring them to do anything so horrific to a child.
We're supposed to be the nurturers. We're supposed to be tender. We're supposed to be gentle. How could such brutality come from a woman's hands? How could a mother look into the eyes of her child and see terror and know that she had put it there?
My town has known this kind of horror before. Several years ago, a well-known and respected member of the community calmly fed her three children a cocktail of drugs before suffocating each one of them. The press theorized that she had done it to punish her estranged husband but there really is no explanation. When a mother turns on her own children it is an act against nature and it makes every one of us question the state of our world.
So tonight, the scariest night of the year, I am feeling a new kind of fear. I worry about our country, the condition of our families and the mental health of people who have been beaten down with stress, anxiety and hopelessness. As my minister said in church this past Sunday, it's time to stop looking at the Oval Office to solve our problems and start looking instead to the heavens. Someone is trying to tell us something.
Maybe we should start listening.
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