Times Like These

On days like the one we saw yesterday it's hard to know what to write, if, like me, you blog every day. Do you go for something light, to comfort people, or look it in the face? I mean the fear, the panic, the sudden loss of control you feel when all the phone lines go down as ours did within minutes after the explosion at the finish line of the Boston Marathon.'Keep calm and do your work' they say. That's a challenge now for us all.My personal moment of panic came when it suddenly hit me that our daughter Annie works right there on Newbury Street.I tried to call her cell. No Answer.I tried to call her office. No answer.I could picture her wandering out onto the street to watch people come in; oh could picture her.....But no. Her company takes the day off with all the thousands of people milling in there. She got lucky maybe.But what would I do, what would I do if these pictures were the last I would ever take of her, as she smiled on Easter, as she sat on our bed with her sister's baby?Three families will wake to that anguishing thought again this morning : the realization that they have taken their last photo of that loved one.May God bless those families. May God bless us all as we try to heal from this last event.