When our children graduate from high school, and go off to college, we never know what they will do, who they will hang out with, what kinds of things they will experiment with, or how much they will study. Some of the things they do (like perhaps we did at that age) we really don’t want to know, and they wouldn’t want us to know either, any more than we wanted our parents to know all the things we were doing.
That said, as parents, we never quit loving our children no matter what they do, or who they get involved with; etc. We care about them, we hope they will pick good friends, and be involved in positive relationships, but when they leave home, they leave home. We hope that we have instilled in them the importance of faith, family and good friends. We hope we have encouraged them enough so that they have a positive self worth, and can make good decisions…but we never know.
Josselyn was 19 years old, and a sophomore at Mankato State. She came from a solid family; she was active in our church (the one I was serving at the time in Le Sueur) she sang in the choir throughout her high school years. While around adults she was quiet, she had a quick wit, and a delightful personality. She was fun to be around. She handled the teasing from the “old guys” in the choir. She was just a precious child of God.
On July 8th, she was murdered, allegedly, by a young man whom she had dated for several months, and her body left in the median about noon, but not seen until about 2 in the afternoon. It seems like such a senseless act of violence, and words cannot describe the anguish that her family and friends feel.
Mankato, is not that far from her home in Henderson. One would think one would be safe there. But unfortunately, violence happens all around us. Even close to home.
I guess what I’m saying here is: “hug your kids.” Make sure they know that they are loved no matter what. Hold them close, but as they grow up, we also need to let them go and trust that things will work out, and if, as in Josselyn’s case things didn’t work out well, may our faith be strong enough to see us through the darkness of grief.
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