Prayers for Baby Grace...

I discovered the following in an online article:

(CBS/AP) Police in Galveston, Texas, are going through hundreds of tips that have poured in since they released sketches of a young girl whose remains were discovered a week ago inside a storage box that washed ashore on Galveston Bay. The unidentified child has become known as "Baby Grace" and authorities are still trying to find out her identity. Her body was found by a fisherman inside a blue plastic utility box that washed ashore along the Intercoastal Waterway Authorities say forensic dental examination has narrowed the girl's age to between 2 and 3 years. She is described as white, 32 to 35 inches tall and 25 to 30 pounds. She had waist-long, wavy blond or light brown hair. She was wearing a Target-brand pink, flowing skirt, a pink or red shirt and white light-up tennis shoes with purple flowers on them. "Someone is missing a child," said Dr. Stephen Pustilnik, the Galveston County chief medical examiner. "A grandparent who hasn't seen their grandchild in the last couple of weeks, a playmate who's missing their playmate and hasn't seen him for a while, there's an aunt, there's an uncle someplace, maybe locally, maybe around the state, maybe somewhere around the nation." http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/05/national/main3451674.shtml?source=mostpop_story

My heart really goes out to the family of this child, whereever they are. How horrific and unthinkable it must be to learn that your child has been murdered and stuffed into a utility box, then set adrift. *gasps* It really is heartbreaking. I've yet to become a mother so I can only imagine what pain must be felt in a tragedy like this. Ugh. It really forces you to take a hard look at the world we live in and the people we live among... some of which have absolutely NO regard for human life.

When things like this happen and then I'm face to face with matters of society... war and terrorism... the piss-poor pollution levels and global warming... and all the other "signs of the times" as foretold in Revelations, it really makes me think looooooooooonnnnng and hard about parenting. Is it humane to even BRING a child INTO this sick, twisted world? To know that things are only getting worse and unfortunately, I wont be able to live long enough to protect them from things to come? Man, its deep. But then, I just say a prayer and hum that childhood song that my Auntie Linda (RIP) taught me back when I was about 4 years old...

"He's got the whoooolle world... in his hands. He's got the whooooolle world... in his hands. He's got the little bitty babies... in his hands. He's got the WHOLE world in his hands."

*sighs heavily*

God bless you little Baby Grace! And all the other mercilessly harmed and murdered children who now watch over us as angels from heaven.

SG~