24/05/2025
Ugh. The Tyler Merritt Project how has it been 3 years already?
And how is this madness STILL AN ISSUE.
I still don’t have answers, beloveds.
But I do know that loving one another, holding space for one another, and supporting each other goes a long way.
Please hug/love on your people today. And every day.
🤍🤍🤍🤍
19. We’ve gone up to 19 CHILDREN. And 2 adults.
Kids 10 and under. I updated The Tyler Merritt Project photo. I didn’t even want to. It made me want to vomit. 😭😭😭
I can’t right now. I’m reposting my thoughts from earlier. Cuz damn.
All. Of. This.
Normally I do not post about “controversial” topics.
Tonight, 28 (now 38) parents are in a level of pain only thought of in our worst nightmares. The parents of 14 (now 19) elementary school students will cry next to empty beds where their babies should be sleeping. Where they should be reading them stories and tucking them in and kissing them goodnight.
Now they are making funeral arrangements, picking coffins or urns, and trying to figure out how to possibly put one foot in front of the other when all they want to do is curl up in a ball and die themselves.
I am sitting here looking at a drawing my little miracle baby made me today. And freezing in fear of sending him to kindergarten next year. And worried about what the reality of active shooter drills will do to him mentally and emotionally.
And I’m just sobbing for the parents in Texas tonight who will never hold their babies again.
I don’t know how to stop this but I, like The Tyler Merritt Project, am willing to do whatever it takes to protect our kids.
And let us make sure we remember that teachers lost their lives today trying to protect the children in their care.
OUR TEACHERS DID NOT SIGN UP TO BE BULLET SPONGES. Schools should not be a war zone. Our teachers should not have to fear for their lives going to work. Yet, here we are.
If you are a teacher who is still showing up and teaching our children, despite all the obstacles thrown at you- THANK YOU.
And if you comment and make this about politics, if you comment with ANYTHING but condolences, solidarity, and sympathy for these families…so help me god, I will block your sorry ass so fast your head will spin. You may post ideas on how to make this better. But you may NEVER use these lives to push your own agenda. There is only ONE agenda.
STOP MAKING US BURY OUR CHILDREN! Period. No more.
I don’t have any answers but I am holding space for those grieving parents, their friends, every single beautiful soul at that school and their families who were paralyzed with fear today and witnessed the unthinkable.
May peace that passes all understanding be with you now and always
