Food For Thought

Jake just told me several weeks ago about a friend of his who was raising three children alone. This week, we found out that the mother of those children (who Jake also knows) was shot to death last week. She was 8 months pregnant with a baby girl. My first thought was, “What was she doing in a situation where she might be shot when she was the protector of a precious baby?” We went to the Winnipeg Free Press website to look up info, and I spent the better part of an hour reading one of the reporter’s blogs. It’s sobering — raises lots of questions. She was a sex-trade worker, as they put it, a cocaine addict who’d only been clean for about 1/2 of the pregnancy, living in a drug house, four other children in the custody of others. . .Maybe my gut response was judgmental. . . I don’t know. Tough questions. Here’s the Blog, entitled “The Rights of the Unborn, The Duty of the Mother”: http://www.winnipegfreepress2.com/blogs/reynolds/?p=221  Read if if you want food for serious thought. Oh, and Canada has no laws about killing a fetus — life begins there with “the first breath of air.”

Secondly, I’m so bothered by the local news of the man who likely threw his four babies over the edge of a high bridge into the water to die. It almost makes me sick to think of it. Now he says they’re alive. . . I hope he’s right. I can’t stand the thought of their precious little bodies out there in the water. (NOTE: Today (1/11) they found the body of little Danny, 4 months old, floating in the water. He died of blunt force trauma and drowning. I guess the father told the truth the first time.) (1/13)  3-year old Ryan is found.  http://www.nbc15online.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=eac578e7-145f-4334-aa19-f556bf9a9fae

Is there any innocence more pure and true than that of a young child?

God, life seems unfair . . .