Amazed

Some of my extended family are going through hell right now. Their daughter has been missing for about 10 days and the police are working under the assumption she has been murdered. A man has been arrested and charged with being an accessory after the fact to her murder.... Kinda seems like a placeholder charge while they gather more evidence in order to detain him. Through all this they have received many pledges of prayers and general messages of hope...and if those are a comfort to them I'm glad. However, there was one today that I just can't let slide. I won't comment on Facebook about it but honestly, if I was in their situation and someone said it to me I would probably completely lose my shit and probably punch them out. My cousin (mother of the missing young lady) posted an update that they'd had no news about her case today, and in other news one of their other daughters rolled her car and totalled it tonight....they and their passenger are okay, just shook up a bit. And the comment.

"God's protecting hand is around you all in a very special way"

Seriously? That's what you take from these events? Reason #867 why I think religious belief overlaps with mental illness waaaaaaay more than people should be comfortable with. Definitely "a very special way"....like an abusive psychopath kind of special. I think I'd prefer a god that wasn't involved in my children being killed and nearly maimed. And if that was the god I was stuck with....I think I'd be a little more on the terrified walking on eggshells side and less on the unconditional praise and worship side... Ok. Rant over.

A blink of an eye on a tiny speck of dust.

 
Could anything sum that up better than this:  The last eroding remnants of an extinct civilization framed by a relatively small sliver of our universe - the milky way galaxy.  From NASA's APOD

Beautiful

Isn't it so wonderful to see a child who loves god's word so much.





And all those adoring adults just cheering him on.  So sweet.

He's going to grow up to be such a model christian.