I am not reporting on what has been smeared all over the news since last Friday. If you want to read about it than search away. I am merely a mom writing on the very sad reality… where has our world gone to that sitting in a movie theater has become an unsafe place to be?
I will be the first to admit… I am not a news hound. I do not read the newspapers, I do not listen to the news, I choose to stay oblivious. Call me what you may, an ostrich, out of touch, naive… it is nothing I have not heard before. The reasoning behind this choice to live in my own little bubble… I know it is all out there, but to fill my mind with it will only lead me to stress and worry about things that are out of my control. If I am filling my mind with all the bad things in the news then my mind is too occupied to enjoy the world that I am living in, here in the four walls of my house with my three sons.
With all that being said, my “news” feed is from people’s comments on Facebook. I find myself reading others status updates from facebook to find out what is going on in the world outside the Kulow house world. Sad, yeah – maybe… but it a personal choice.
After hearing about the shooting, I was horrified – that someone… one man could do such harm to so many people. My thoughts went to the families that lost their loved ones in theater nine last Friday morning. A late movie night was their last. A tombstone will mark the beginning and ending of their lives. Then my thoughts went to the family of the shooter… I know nothing of them, but my thoughts were these… This family will not have a grave to visit of their loved one, son, friend, brother, grandson, cousin… they will forever live behind the social bars that our world will view them in as the family of the killer. Yes, I understand that the man that did this horrible thing will pay, he is locked away and will remain there forever, in a cell with only inmates for interactions. His family will still have to reside in society, they will still have to go grocery shopping, hold down jobs, and go on living… all being judged as a killers family. How horrible that will be.
My heart breaks… in so many ways! I know that there is ugly in the world, when it is in my face, in my state, down the highway from my home, it really makes me think! Come Lord, quickly! I desire for my babies to not have to live in this broken world that is corrupted by sin!
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