People are still good.

A bad thing happen this week in Colorado. I drove into work last Friday morning listening to my regular news program and they kept commenting on how President Obama and Mitt Romney were going to have to comment on the shootings in Colorado..."What shootings in Colorado?" Once I got to work, I read about it online.

It's just sick.


As a parent you worry so much about EVERYTHING, I can imagine the mother of the 18 year old girl who was killed was happy that her teenager was going to a movie that night rather than out to some party or cruising around town with friends...and then this.   

It's hard to hear about this and other awful things in the news - yet through it all, motherhood taught me to believe that there is inherent good in people much more than bad. (We just hear about the bad more often.) I believe this because as I see Mary grow and her personality come out, she never approaches anyone new in a negative way. She may be a little shy at first, but then will smile and wave and even put on a little show. She was born good and loving and happy - I think one of my top jobs as a "Mom" is to keep that as pure as possible.

There is even proof of human good in this sad Colorado story from last week - three of the men who died, were shot because they threw themselves in front of their girlfriends to shield them from the gunfire. Talk about Superheros.

I'm blatantly copying this prayer from another blog I follow - I thought it summed up my feelings very well.

God grant me eyes to embrace the light, wisdom to learn from the dark, the ability to be present and active in my child's life to educate her on the full spectrum of who she shares this world with, good and bad.  May she learn these lessons slowly and over time.  Help me keep her a child for as long as I can.  Help me navigate these waters with faith.  Help us live every day of our lives.

And, no, I'm not a Bible-Beating member of the God Squad (as Brian would say)...but, yes, I do pray.