How dare I try to write something helpful about the Russian school massacre? Perhaps for this reason. In November 1965 we lost our 2 year old daughter Margaret who died 6 days after being terribly scalded through an accident at home.
Now I am aware that our sorrow caused by an accident was nothing compared with the deliberate slaughter of children in Beslan, but I am reminded of the triumphant faith of Betsie Ten Boom. Before she died in Ravensbrük concentration camp in 1944, she said to her sister Corrie, “We must tell them what we have learned here.” Her emphasis was not on what they had suffered but on what they had learned!
A prayer. “Lord help me to believe that sorrows can be part of my education.”