So Sad
I just read that they've found Kelsey Smith's body. Kelsey was the 18 year old girl kidnapped from a Target parking lot a few days ago in suburban Kansas City. My thoughts and prayers go out to her family.
These cases are always so sad but this one, in particular, has so touched me---possibly because Kelsey looks like a sweet, all-American girl who had so much potential. Possibly because when we go on our twice yearly soccer trips to Overland Park we stay very close to that Target. In fact, I've been there several times. Possibly because Payten is just a couple of years younger and she goes to "our" Target here--alone sometimes.
John Kennedy once said that having a child is like giving a hostage to fate and I guess this proves that statement once again. We can't very well hold on to them so tightly that they cannot grow up and become independent and certainly making one's own shopping decisions at Target is a step toward independence. In addition to that, we just have to think back to Polly Klaas to see that there are times that we cannot keep them safe even when we think they are asleep under the same roof we are under.
God bless all of the families who have lived through this sort of tragedy.
