I need a tissue

Good grief.  I feel I have been so emotional lately!  Just about every video Caleb has sent me, has me crying 10 seconds into it.  I think it's because just about everything I view now, I view with my daughter in mind.  How I see things are different now because of her and her very existence and imprint on my heart.

I had heard about the movie We Bought A Zoo and that it was worth watching.  I didn't know much about it but I just watched it last night and LOVED it!  So heartwarming with very real elements of pain, grief, loneliness, happiness, joy, and love.  I highly recommend this film.  
It has some language and an intense shouting match between a father and son that might be too much for younger ones, but that particular scene is part of the "breaking point" where relationships and people begin to heal.  
Two thumbs up!  Plus, this ridiculously cute little girl is in it.  

Caleb sent me a video about one family's journey through the loss of their daughter in the Sandy Hook shooting last year.  Can you believe that this Saturday is the one year anniversary of this tragedy?  Wow.  How has 1 year gone by already?
I remember hearing the news while at work.  I came home, sat in the basement, glued to the TV hesitantly watching horrifying clip after horrifying clip that swarmed every channel.  I was almost 4 months pregnant at this time.  I sank into Caleb and just cried as we continued to watch the news for the rest of the evening.
So many questions.

How could someone do this?
How could someone maliciously, without a second thought, kill these innocent children?
It's Christmas.... these poor families.  How can they go on?  Every Christmas is a now an awful reminder of this nightmare.
Where was God in all of this?
Why did this have to happen?

This video is beautiful.  Evil did not win that day.  This video is proof of many things.
There is still good in mankind.
God knows exactly how we feel, afterall, His own Son died.
God is healing to the families that felt broken.  God is strength to the families when they didn't think they could go on without their child.  God is love to the families through other people showering them with love.
God loves the little children.  All the children of the world.
A child, no matter how small or how young, can have such an impact and through others, begin to change and help the world.

But viewer, do yourself a favor and grab a tissue.  Or two.