Connecticut Shooting Victims

After watching the 60 Minutes program regarding gun control, I kind of sat in a daze. I almost lost a child to leukemia, but I was spared that. You were not. I have no words, really, but my heart is with you all in this fight.

I want to extend my condolences to the grieving families of Sandy Hook Elementary School. May you as time passes, heal from your broken hearts and find comfort in this promise at Proverbs 2:21,22.

They will always be remembered!!! love Hazel. Happy Easter in Heaven. 3/31/2013

Please accept my heartfelt condolences for the loss of your love ones. We will continue to pray with you and for you.

I feel renewed sadness every time I see the photos I saved of the students and teachers we lost. I feel I know them all from the biographies I read for each person. May everyone effected find the strength they need ongoing.

In recent interviews several of the children's parents and one spouse commented that in some ways, the pain has gotten worse rather than easier to bear. Even though I didn't know anyone in Sandy Hook, the sorrow I feel for them has grown deeper, too. My prayers during this Lenten season are for those I love, and for those "lost" children who are clearly still deeply loved, forever.

Philip Shults, Missouri
I lost two Sons, one 22, and one 19, 14 months apart. One was homicide and one was suicide, and both from the use of a gun. I want to let them, YOU,,... know they, YOU,,... are not alone! Many are with you in spirit! I wish you extra strength to see it through. Shock may/can (Own opinion) last for about six months and then you may/will start to grieve again. Hold on! Just breathe. Two breaths in and two breaths out and let time begin its bandages upon your wounds of your heart. Hold on white knuckle tight to the solidness of your beliefs. It's been 15 years for me, these are the words that hopes to let you know you will make it but it will require the correct choices for hope, from courage, and from persistence. Sincerely, Philip Shults, Rolla, Mo

It was a time of great depression,
When your death brought a hopeless mask.
Where getting by was only through suffering,
It became the never ending task.

Grief's shock came on like a powerful light,
way too bright to see through and traveling way too fast.
As days turned to weeks into months then years,
Your life became my past.

Just when I thouht I'd turned on hopes corner,
And I felt that I'd set a good pace,
For hope over grief, to see it through,
Then again, deep grief did I face.

I battled again all emotions so surreal,
As deep suffering in sorrow came,
And I cried out my grief, with the preciuos words of your name.

It was breath by breath, and heartache and tears,
As those days turned into months and then turned into years.
Now those years have taught me to cope,
And how to make my own peace, and grace and hope.

for I have been inside to the image of it all,
And I've received answers to all that I've asked,
But there once was a time of great depression,
When your death brought a hopeless mask.

.............you will make it, hold on and hold on tight,,...to hope!

My heart goes out to all those family's that have lost there lil Angeles. GOD bless you all.

We must learn the lessons and help our future kids. I am reminded of the acronym my teacher said for the word STUDY - Simply - to understand, devote yourself

So, sad, no words can take away your pain. God Bless Sandy Hook.