Mama - 4 Children

A Black woman in DC was found in her home, with her four dead children. The sheriff showed up to evict her and she just opened the door and let the smell of death hit them in the face. She was 31. The eldest child was 17. I was horror struck.

I tried to point the finger to how 4 children fell through the cracks - school? church? neighbors? family? Each one had a believable story, a reason why they didn't suspect. Child Protective Services went to the house, but found noone home and didn't pursue. Neighbors smelled something but thought it was a dead rat. On and on and on it goes, but, in the meantime, four little black princesses lost their lives when life and its burdens became too much and mama's sanity exited stage right.

It is a testament of the human condition. People are hungry. Not just hungry, they are starving. The holiday season was appraoching when these girls died (apparently the mother had been in there with them for weeks). The depression, the unacceptable obligation and weight of it all, leads to more tragedy than we know. Our world has changed - under this adminstration, moral erosion and spiritual decay are the standard. Inexplicably cracks in sanity are appearing as our economy forces the poor to lose more. People are losing their grip and the results are devastating.

Last week, in DC, a black mother was convicted of killing four of her own children, ages 17 -5. She sat in the house with their decaying bodies. And I find it impossible to believe. My mind is numb and I feel helpless. So much I want to do, but its misplaced energy, there is no solution. A feeling like Katrina - watching the unbelieveable happen and having no way to help. Other than pray. Somewhere else in this world, someone else is experiencing that same type of depression, isolation and desperateness. She is staring at children she cannot feed, cannot provide for and death is whispering in her ear that it is the best solution. The only solution. I hope and pray that God will intervene, will light a path, will make a way...Have faith, please, have faith that tomorrow will bring deliverance from the darkness of this night...