Coffee Break

It's so hard to believe that it's Christmas Eve 2012. So much has happened this year, and as I look back on all the events of the year, I am still just so amazed at God's Grace and Love. I am so glad that we came up to spend Christmas with my best friend, Tina, and her growing family! Right before we came up she found out that she is pregnant with twins! I'm so happy and excited for her, and it is going to be so much fun watching them grow up! As we have spent the past few days in the Winston-Salem area I have met some extremely nice and caring people. We have gone to a real active church that seems to have a heart for God and I have loved taking my kids out to see new places and have fun. Today we took them ice skating. They have been ice skating before, but it has been years. My daughter wanted to go, so we found an indoor rink (it was raining today) and they enjoyed skating for a couple of hours. Over all it has been a good Christmas break, ...

 and I'm still up. It has been an emotionally draining day. My emotions are still very raw from the tragedy in Connecticut. I don't have to know the children who died or their families to feel pain and shed tears. I have read so much about gun control and about the state of mind of the young man, but the fact of the matter is, those children and heroic adults are gone. Death is all around us, everyday. It seems so senseless and it can be so crippling. I can remember being of a very young age when I lost my Grandmother, and so many more after her. Death is never easy. Many times we just don't know what to say or how to even respond to death. I don't know if the parents will ever fully heal. Only God knows the answer. I don't know how many people will continue to curse God or not believe that there is a God or how many people will turn to God because of this, but I know as a Christ follower I have faith that God STILL control. We will all suffer loss, we w...

is just broken right now. And it's not just over the unforeseen death of so many young children. This past week has been riddled with death, and today has been my first day to really let it all sink in. My week started with hearing about a shooting, no two shootings, a plane crash, and a homicide. I do not watch the news. I probably should, but it depresses me to the point that I just can't, and I don't read the paper, so when I hear of a tragedy, I know it is a tragedy, as they say good news travels fast, but bad news travels faster. Mr. Poppell, an active community leader, took a private plane to Valdosta earlier this week, but never made it. He died in the accident. Then later that morning news came in that Commissioner Sublett, of Brunswick, was reported missing and later found dead and his death has been ruled a homicide. That is when I learned of two more shootings in our community. This was Tuesday. That afternoon we were having a station meeting and we were...