Today, I will begin a period of mourning.  Everyday, until the list is exhausted, I am going to focus on praying and remembering one of the Sandy Hook victims.  Today, I am remembering Charlotte Bacon, age 6.  I look at my son’s class composite picture. I see all those bright, beautiful faces. I cannot fathom a moment in time when every one of them is gone. So today, I will speak the name Charlotte. I will pray for her family. I will write her name on my board tomorrow morning at school. I will mourn the loss of her potential and light.

Today, I also lift up in prayer the family of Dr. Robert Scheidt.  What an amazing servant of the Lord!  Bob has received his heavenly reward.  The loss we feel is overwhelming, but being a Christian gives us certainty that death is not the end.

As we move through this week, let us love one another.  I sense so much hate and anger around this massacre in Connecticut.  So many people have been broken by this.  I challenge us to look around our own little world and see the broken people.  Then we must love them, help them, lift them, and touch their lives.  I think of Mom and how much she reached out to people in the last year of her life.  She had no speech and no ability to go to anyone.  So when they came through her door or walked across the lobby, SHE LOVED THEM.  She really and honestly loved them and gave them that smile, and they felt it and they were changed.  LET US LOVE ONE ANOTHER!   And God bless little Charlotte.