Desperately Seeking for Answers

When my husband and I bought our home we made sure it was a good neighborhood, a good school district and I made sure to check that there were no child molesters near our home. We were protecting our children before they were even born. That's what all parents do. They try their best to provide a safe and loving home for their children. Every generation tries to do better than the one before. You have no idea how much you will love your new bundle of joy until you hold them for the very first time. You will give them the world and promise to protect them always. So what do you do when your child is taken away so suddenly and so violently. What could you have done differently? Did you fail them in any way? It's thoughts like this that I am sure run through the parents of those 20 innocent lives we lost in Newtown, CT.

I am desperately seeking for answers........How do we protect our children? What do parents need to do, what does society need to do, what do I need to do? I am scared for my children, scared of sending them into a world I no longer feel safe in. I recently read somewhere that we should not be worrying about what kind of world we are leaving behind for our children but what kind of children we are raising and leaving to our world. I never thought of that. Its all so true and frightening. Should I never introduce video games to my Children? Should i be an advocate for the banning of guns.....will that keep my children safe? Should I quit my job and home school?

How do I keep these fears from my children? Can I ever put them in the bus without fear that I may never see them again? I am desperately seeking for answers......how do I make sure that my sons grow up to be good boys, good contributors to society, polite, honest, hard working? How do I make sure they don't hurt anyone or hurt themselves. I am Desperately seeking for answers......until I find them I have to do something I haven't done in a long time, I have to "PRAY".