December 4, 2007
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Warning: Rant Ahead
So yesterday was the first game without Sean Taylor.....at least being...somewhere. during the first defensive play of the game they played with his position empty. That was a poignant moment. The missing man formation. Only 10 men on the field. And the whole game was played with a mixture of passion and crazy distraction. We ended up losing in a heartbreaker as a result of those distractions. It was a tough loss because I think everyone wanted it especially this week. The people in the stands were emotional, the players on the field were emotional, and the people watching...well...we were emotional too. It is weird.
And today was the funeral. I was just scanning through some of the pictures and was struck by another fact. All of this time I had been thinking about the waste of the talent, and so much of his life gone, and the fact that he had been turning his life around and it was snuffed out when he was just getting on the straight and narrow after being on a rough road for a while, and in looking at the pictures I was struck....I saw a picture of him holding his beautiful daughter.....and I saw the adoration in his eyes.....and I realized that that little girl will not know the man who adored her....and therein lies the really sad part of this whole saga....That little girl had a Dad who adored her....and she will never really remember him. It hurts my heart. My Dad is still alive, but chose to leave us when we were young so it hurts my heart when a child who's Dad so obviously adores her has to lose him....nobody deserves that.... I know that God has a plan....sometimes it just doesnt make a lot of sense....
So now we have 4 boys in custody and a 5th that they are looking for. They are being charged with burglary and "unpremeditated" murder. They said they did not know that anyone would be home. But my question is: Why take a gun to a burglary unless there is some plan to use it? Doesn't the mere act of taking a gun to the house make it premeditated? That would be my vote. Their lawyer says that they are scared.... I guess that is supposed to make us feel sorry for them. They should be going to school and getting an education so that they could earn the money to buy the things that they need/want instead of stealing them.... That's what Sean did. Earn it. Don't steal it.
Anyway.... That is my rant for the day....Sorry, I promise will get off of this topic soon....
peace....
<edit> I watched the news coverage of the funeral service last night, and time and time again, people attested to their knowledge and assurance that Sean was a child of God - that he had accepted Christ as his personal Savior. Hopefully that service and his testimony will make an impact on is teammates, friends and family....and maybe even the kids who took his life....
peace again.....
Comments (3)
Go ahead and rant if you want to. That's what a blog is for--at least partly.
I know--the idea of that little girl growing up without her father puts a whole new face on the story. So very sad.
RYC: OOH!! MORE virtual cake! THANK YOU!!
and thank you so much for the "credits"!!
ryc: you missed the dentist post, because i actually wrote it yesterday, but got interrupted whilst writing it and had to save it under "private" so i actually posted it this morning. i guess it dates it the day that you actually 'save' it or whatever. yeah, the dental work is painful enough but what it's going to end up costing us 'po folk is even MORE painful!!!!!!!! this time, they had to clear away a lot of gum tissue (1. because they have to anyway so they can get the crowns in there to fit properly and 2. becaue there was some decay. *sigh* they are healing--feeling better today...still a little tender though)
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