I read a story on Facebook this morning. A real tear jerker. I don't know if it was true and frankly I don't care because it was a good reminder for me. The holidays are a fun and amazing time of year for people but there are people who it is a hard time. They maybe grieving the loss of something or someone. It is so easy to get caught up in the gift buying and food shopping and forget to be kind to another. That's what Christmas is all about anyways. In the midst of your celebrating or shopping remember to have compassion. Try and put yourself in someone else's shoes. If someone is rude to you it could be that they are just trying to cope with the holidays and don't know how. Have some grace. Someone else had grace for you more then 2000 years ago. Keep that in mind this holiday season.
Tonight my heart is heavy. Crushed. Grieved. Angry. Our community lost a 7th grade girl several days ago to suicide. 7th grade. Suicide. Hard to read? Hard to imagine? Yeah, me too. I did not know Isis Paulsen. But we just sat with some students who did. Students who don't have words for what is going on around them. Students who want answers. Students who are dealing with things that I as an almost 28 year old adult don't even know how to deal with. All you want to do is take that pain away from them. From Isis. Hug them so tight that it squeezes all the darkness out. But we can't. We can be there for them. We can listen to them. We don't have to fix this. We just have to be present. Listen. Let me tell you a few things I learned tonight about middle school students 1. They are ready to make things different for the future. They are already thinking about how to not let this happen to future generations. One student asked "How do we make sure this doesn...
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