Is There Healing???

My heart goes out in deep sympathy to the families of the five children that were killed in the village of Nickel Mine. I know what it is to grieve for five children and I think that a situation such as this would be especially painful and tramautic. Is there healing?

How can one imagine the trauma and fear of the remaining children of this Amish school? I can't imagine the road they must walk through this valley of grief. I read that the teacher of this school said, "Me and the children need each other." So true! It is being together, facing the future together that they will begin to find healing.

It brought back starkly the deep grief that my brother and his wife faced (Can it be???!!!) now almost one year ago. When we visited them this summer, there were so many emotions for me to face once again. It was important for me to see them going on with their life, seeing them laughing and talking , crying with them again, and taking time to go see the five small gravestones in the pine-groved cemetary on the hill. How healing it was for me to be there! I felt that my heart had to catch up with the grieving that my family has been going through together for the past year. Yes, I can testify, there is healing! But memories still bring many tears.

So it isn't hard for me to grieve with the families in Pennsylvania right now. God will give them grace as he has given our family, God will help them laugh again even though right now it seems impossible, God will be there for them. This is my confidence! Thank God for His healing power!