I read this article with a lump in my throat.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2011-08-08-maryland-mother-kills-son_n.htm
This is devastating. My kids sometimes read my blog, so I''ll refrain from details here. Basically, this article shows how low a mom can get when she is desperate. Obviously, she was mentally ill, but all the same I have compassion for her situation. I remember that sick-to-the stomach feeling before school meetings. I've known discouragement and frustration at seemingly hopeless situations. This family in the article lived down the street from our old home in Kensington, MD. It hits home to me. I'm so saddened by it. This should not have happened.
However, this article makes me grateful for our situation. Grateful to homeschool, grateful for my marriage, grateful for my children, and most of all, grateful for the LORD who has carried me through many discouraging times.
After reading this, I thought of Psalm 139:7-12:
Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,” even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
I'm so thankful for the promise that God is with me.
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