Tragedy - Alzheimer's Disease & Dementia Message Board

DrewsG · 03-09-2009, 11:56 AM

Just when you think you can't continue with this dementia or ALZ hell we are all in something happens to show you there are worse things than wondering "How is Mom going to be today"?

My daughter-in-law is a teacher at a Christian school in a small neighboring town where yesterday the unthinkable happened and Pastor Winters was murdered during the morning prayer service. All of my Grandchildren went to preschool there for years and my DIL taught at that time also. My son and daughter are trying to explain what happened and why someone would want to hurt Pastor. Such questions should not have to be ask at such a young age but this is reality hitting us in the face. My two grandsons are 6 and our granddaughter is 9. So sheltered from all of the worlds evil but not now.Thank God we attend another church or they would have been there during Morning Worship. We were at the lake and on our way home when we got the call.

I know our lives are a mess at times and we struggle but when we look around there is always someone who is in much more pain than we can imagine as Pastor Winters family is at this time and in the years to come. Moms calls last night didn't seem to bother me as much as previous days..... I kept thinking "Thank God my children are safe".

Love,Chris

debbie g · 03-09-2009, 12:53 PM

i just read about that and i am horrified. maybe the kids can see a counselor to help them with their grief. nothing makes sense in this world.

mary09 · 03-10-2009, 06:02 PM

Chris,
I just saw this story on the internet.....what is going on in the world?
Thank God you and your family are safe......my heart goes out to the pastor and his family....so sad and so senseless...

Caroline

Gabriel · 03-10-2009, 07:25 PM

Wow Chris. I am so very glad that all of your children and grandchildren are ok. I did see that story. Each time I see something on the news like that I wonder if anybody that I have crossed paths with were affected. There is no way to explain the unexplainable... to adults or children.

I don't know what is going on in this world. A CNN Breaking News just hit my e-mail box saying 10 were killed in a shooting spree in Alabama today. There is way too much violence.

Grief counceling would be a good idea for the kids and the adults connected to pastor White's shooting. It's difficult to deal with the senselessness. I do understand your feelings about Mom. Sometimes larger issues but our issues in prespective. Mom's having a difficult time right now. I can see her slipping fast. But I always remember..... it could alway be worse

Love, deb

meg1230 · 03-10-2009, 08:39 PM

Since Maryville is in my old neck of the woods I have had friends e mailing me left and right telling me about what happened. It is so hard to fathom. What drove that man to that church...why that church. Why the violence. What drives people like this. We will never comprehend it. I just have to shake my head. ....And then the phone rings, it's mom wanting to know if I have taken my grandmother's nightgowns...where are they.. what have I done with them.

My beautiful grandmother has been gone for over 30 years now but mom is searching for her gowns. Tomorrow she will be searching for something else.
When dealing with someone with this disease, the violence that shows up on the nightly news can only live in our brains for so long...we have more immediate things to deal with...

oh great...now a guy in Alabama has just shot up 10 people.

Love, Meg