Whoa

I was driving home thinking cheery thoughts like, "It's impossible to be gloomy when the forsythia is in bloom." And then I checked my email.

A dear friend was urging me to pray for a mutual acquaintance, whose daughter is in grave condition after being shot at close range by her boyfriend.

I learned from a Facebook friend that a guy we went to school with from sixth grade on was just found dead in his apartment. It's not clear how long he was there before someone discovered his body.

The priest who baptized four of our children just lost his mother, ten days after she was diagnosed with cancer.

Holding my kids a little closer this afternoon.