LAST SUNDAY.....

Last Sunday we went to the big shopping mall for Mother’s Day. We were having a wonderful time, when suddenly on our way to the shoe store to get new tennis for Elisa and Jeremy, we heard chilling cries and screams from a woman in the center of the mall. She had lost her three year old son, and was pleading for someone to help her. We, along with a massive crowd around us, stood frozen, not knowing exactly what to do. The woman’s heart-wrenching cries paused for only a moment while the police came on the scene to help. When we then went on to the shoe store, I could still hear her cries, but could only pray for her. Later, I thought of the verse Mat 2:18, “ A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”