Special Remembering

So I should have posted this yesterday but I didn't have a chance...so a day late...here I go:

11 years ago yesterday I was 16 and LOVED, I do mean LOVED high school, but for whatever reason I was having a weird day and all I wanted to do was go home. So at like 11 in the morning I called my mom and told her I didn't know why I just really wanted to come home. To my shock and astonishment she said she would be right up to school to get me. As she pulled up to the school the security guard wouldn't let me go outside, he went spoke with my mom and came back and walked me to her car...at this point I REALLY thought something was up. As I settled into the car my mom said, "Brittney, something happened at Kim and Michelle's school, they don't know if they are ok right now." Kim and Michelle Fox are sister's that went to church with us, Kim is my age and our class literally did everything together. We got home and turned on the news...the phone ringing off the hook in the background...and that was the first time I saw what had happened at Columbine. I was so worried for Kim and Michelle, where were they, were they hurt? Then on top of it I had other friends there too, and my friends at school had friends and family there...it was one of that saddest days I can remember. Sweet lives were lost, other lives were ruined but out of the sorrow there cam a hope and a community and now my sweet friend can look back on that day and thank God for everyday she has had since then. I always want to remember, especially since I am about to start teaching high school, I want to remember so I am prepared for students and the challenges that they bring with them everyday...Here is a song written that year for Columbine, touches my heart every time I hear it....