Please send the Angels to comfort the Parents

There is nothing worse that can happen to a parent then the death of their child.

It’s one of those things in life that you just never get over…ever. The worst of all is to have your child murdered. There is no explanation that can describe the horror a parent feels when their child’s life is taken. To a lesser degree, in a car accident, or a mishap, or even a terrible sickness or disease, the grief lingers and in time it maybe possible to come to some sort of acceptance the loss of a beloved child was unpreventable. There is no possible way of understanding a child being massacred while going to elementary school. It is the worst of the worst of the worst.

To those parents who lost their children in the carnage at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown Connecticut…. my heart goes out to them. I feel the tears in my eyes welling up as I write this. I have been feeling that sickly feeling of depression all morning. It could be from my personal life…. but I think it’s from the grief pouring out in Connecticut and spreading across the nation and the continent. The whole Western world is touched by this tragedy. I am procrastinating at writing even these few words, however I feel compelled to. To those of us on a spiritual path we feel the pain as we “are all one” with each other and these families in Connecticut. I am sure every compassionate sentient being in the world is aware of the excruciating pain that these families are now suffering at the hands of an insane gunman.

A visibly emotional Pres. Obama said Friday in a CBS news story that America has suffered “too many of these tragedies” he went on to say “the majority of those who died were children-beautiful little kids between the ages of five and 10 years old”.

To all of the mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters and grandparents and their families who are suffering this trauma and asking why, there is no answer. There is only pain. The lost of the innocent feels like your heart being torn out of your chest, over and over every day for the rest of your life. There is no grief counseling or tender words of wisdom that can be given. This is an awful thing.

If it is comforting at all today and in the days to come, I hope the families and this community feel the compassion of the entire Western world as we grieve with them. As a father who’s lost a child… but not in such a horrific manner… my heart goes out to them and I grieve with them. This is still such a terrible thing. I am so sad.

I ask God Almighty God Almighty God Almighty to send the holy angels to comfort and administer to the parents and all their family who are in such terrible pain today. May this never happen again. Amen

Rev Douglas James Cottrell PhD.