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“O Holy Night”
By
Kristina Robb-Dover
We sang this hymn in church today. In the wake of Friday morning’s massacre of a first-grade class of school children, the meaning of “O Holy Night” made me cry like a baby. (Never mind my husband’s running joke that I cry at road kill.) Jesus was born into the very same dark world. When…
A Child’s Prayer of Lament
By
Kristina Robb-Dover
We were driving home from school yesterday when the NPR reports came on. Another horrific mass killing. This time at a school. 28 dead, 20 of them children. The sound of gun shots on the school’s loudspeakers were in the background of the news report. My six-year-old son said, “Mommy, did someone get really angry?”…
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