Losing a Child

Let's take a moment of silence for a mother who recently lost her son. While another woman was supposed to be sitting in the car with the children, she went to find jumper cables. When she came back, the woman had gotten out of the car and was in the house. The mother's 2 year old was in the driver's seat. The car had rolled and gone over the mother's other son, a 4 year old boy named Gabriel. While she screamed for help, none came. People stood there and watched as she worked to save her little boy. When she discovered he was on fire, she screamed for water, but none came. By the time people finally came to help and brought her water, her son had already passed away.

I do not know this mother's name. But please, everyone, pray for her that she will have strength to survive this horrible tragedy. She has other children who need her, but who can concentrate on the other children when one is missing, forever gone? Her in-laws are being total jerks. Pray that they gain sympathy.

This is for Gabby's mom.

I am wearing a pair of shoes.They are ugly shoes.Uncomfortable shoes.I hate my shoes.Each day I wear them, and each day I wish I had another pair.Some days my shoes hurt so bad that I do not think I can take another step.Yet, I continue to wear them.I get funny looks wearing these shoes.They are looks of sympathy.I can tell in other's eyes that they are glad they are my shoes and nottheirs.They never talk about my shoes.To learn how awful my shoes are might make them uncomfortable.To truly understand these shoes you must walk in them.But, once you put them on, you can never take them off.I now realize that I am not the only one who wears these shoes.There are many pairs in this world.Some women are like me and ache daily as they try to walk in them.Some have learned how to walk in them so that they don't hurt quite somuch.Some have worn the shoes so long that days will go by before they thinkabout how much they hurt.No woman deserves to wear these shoes.Yet, because of these shoes I am a stronger woman.These shoes have given me the strength to face anything.They have made me who I am.I will forever walk in the shoes of a woman who has lost a child.-Author Unknown