09/11/2025
Today brought me to the brink.
This week I watched footage of two human beings lose their lives at the hands of another, just hours apart. They weren’t headlines or statistics -- they were someone’s family. A daughter. A father. Someone’s forever person.
And then, scrolling further, I read the news of yet another school shooting -- the 47th this year -- buried on page three of a search because a different tragedy was drawing more clicks.
What has hurt almost as much as the violence itself is the hate pouring from the comment sections. Words like “he got what he deserved” -- as though a life can ever be reduced to that.
✨ Humanity > Politics.
Politics shift. Faiths differ. But my faith in humanity seems to chip away year after year.
The only relief in my day was knowing my kids are still young enough not to ask questions. Because I don’t know how I would have answered. I don’t know how I would have calmed their fears when my own heart is unsteady.
For them, today’s heartbreak was simpler: Geoffrey couldn’t find his red socks before his scrimmage, and Genevieve wrestled with the tough choice to sit out from cheering because she wasn’t feeling well.
One day, though, this world will break their hearts the way it has broken mine. I only pray they’ll still know how to find the light in the darkness. I hope they become that light. For others. And for themselves.
On the sidelines tonight, parents couldn’t help but talk about the elephant in the room. No debates. Just quiet confessions: “This world is godless.” “My stomach turned.” “Today hit hard.” In that moment, I felt less alone. I realized we are all wondering the same thing:
đź’” How do we protect our babies in the years to come?
đź’” How much more humanity will slip away before we have to work even harder to convince them they are safe?
đź’” How do we raise them not just to be good, but to stay good -- for others, and for themselves?
Tonight I don’t have answers. Just a broken heart, an exhausted spirit, and a quiet hope that maybe, just maybe, if we hold on tightly enough to kindness, to empathy, to each other -- we’ll remember that humanity matters more than anything else.
