Just when we think we have entered the numbing, post-shock phase of the Colorado movie theater shooting, comes heartbreaking news to make it all brand new again. Shooting victim Ashley Moser miscarried her unborn child following surgery for gunshot wounds to her neck and abdomen. This was the baby that everyone was hailing the "miracle baby" for somehow being able to survive its mother's wounds. The same baby that lost a sister, 6 year old Veronica, the youngest victim, in this meaningless bloodbath. That same baby that everyone thought in their hearts would be delivered to term, to give mom Ashley a reason for living. Looks like James Holmes took that away, too.
It's moments like this that make you seriously question that "grand plan" that people like to talk about in hard times like this. Everything happens for a reason, we are told. But why this on top of everything else? What more could this poor young mom be put through and how will she ever be able to make sense and find acceptance in it all? Her grief must be unbearable at this point, if her family has even told her yet. They waited a while to break the news about her daughter because she was in such bad medical shape.
Now coming out of another surgery, she's greeted with even more tragic news. And the more we started to wonder whether James Holmes, sitting alive in that solitary cell, really did have severe mental problems that might in no way excuse but at least explain why he did what he did ... screw it. Screw him. He doesn't deserve the air he breathes. Any minuscule shred of understanding is wiped permanently away with his claiming of this innocent victim 13 who was denied a chance to even meet the world.
James Holmes will never be able to pay entirely for his brutal, evil crime. Even the death penalty doesn't seem harsh enough for him on this sad, sad day.
How will this young mom ever be able to recover from any of this?
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My heart goes out to this woman. From what I read somewhere else, she also just lost her Dad two months ago. So much heart ache for her to deal with. I hope that she has other family members that she can fall back on because she is going to need it.
Can we, you know, not turn this into a political debate over abortion?
My heart goes out to this mom. First to lose her six year old then to miscarry? It's so incredibly sad and I hope she finds the strength to get through this.
I have a few thoughts ... one starts w/ trying to forgive the unforgiveable in my own life. It has taken me on an incredible journey through places online, books, people, writing ... and in all of this, there was no one "right' thing that "gave me the answer" - my "eureka moment! a-ha! so THIS IS THE POINT OF ALL THIS DAMMED SUFFERING!!!" -- it took about two years into it when I realized what exactly the point was: to be on the journey at all -that's the point. Right now I am reading "Delivered from Evil" by Ron Franscell, about people who have survived such shootings as this one - a definite recommend to this mother who has now buried two of her children.
how did i know this would get some whackadoo what abotu abotion comment?
How much can one person handle? Being shot in a devestating and extremely traumatic massacre, fighting for your own life, losing your 6 year old daughter, and now losing your unborn child as well. God doesn't put more on us than we can bear, so this must be the strongest woman to walk the face of this Earth because I don't know anyone else who could bear this much pain. God please give her peace and comfort. Please let her see love in this world even though she has been subjected to so much pain and so much evil.