I awoke this morning, like most mornings … brain cells shocked awake by either my alarm clock, or the coffee grinder (I have come to adore the heart-stopping action of the roar of my coffee grinder, because it leads me to my morning jo 🙂 ).
So, after the brain cells were alerted to … morning … my thoughts went to what this Monday was to hold … (including, primarily, the NHL playoff game).
Go to school for job #2 (and there was a head full of ‘stuff’ moving swirling around about this)
– come home
– make dinner
– watch the hockey game … game six! Will it be Boston or Vancouver?
– help son and friend with school video assignment
– take son’s friend to meeting place to deliver to his mom
– tidy house
– prepare for job #1, for tomorrow
– go to bed … after setting alarm and coffee maker …
After all the morning preparations were done (kids up, posts written, readied for the day), I left home, with the kids, to head to school/work.
Then I walked into the school, and the priorities of the day, and the priority of the NHL playoffs, disappeared …
A sixteen year old girl, from our school community is missing. Her parents saw her late Saturday night, and all was well. When she did not emerge from her room Sunday morning, they checked on her, to discover she was not there.
her parents do not know where she is …
her parents do not know why she’s gone …
her parents do not know how she left …
her parents …
Anyone who is a parent, and has heard the story of this girl’s disappearance (even if, like me, you do not know the girl or her family), is aching inside. We immediately hear this story, and every parental fiber of our being feels the fear those parents are feeling. We immediately put ourselves in their shoes, and want to help find a beautiful Hallmark ending for this story.
The hockey game …
… doesn’t matter anymore.
Finding Amanda …
that is everything!
Please pray for her, and her family.
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