Anguish beyond description…....

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I can't seem to erase the image of a mother searching for her 3 missing children who were buried alive in the mudslide that hit Albay (one of our provinces) last year . I can’t begin to imagine the anguish that the mother is feeling for her children. As a mother, I also felt her pain, anguish, frustration & helplessness. Yet I am certain that what I am feeling doesn’t even come close to what she may be feeling and going through. She would be literally experiencing ‘hell on earth’ wherein one would think that it would have been better that she was also buried alive with her children just to spare her the pain. No pain could be greater than losing a beloved child let alone losing the 3 children in one incident. Whew! I feel my heart constricting just thinking about it. No words could even begin to describe the loss and pain of the inconsolable mother. At times like this, no matter how insufficient it may seem, all I could offer is a prayer, for the children and the mothers and to those who have lost their loved ones in the mudslide...their wife, family & parents. May God’s grace and light shine upon them to comfort them and assure them that their loved ones are now with the angels. In times like this, the only comfort that mothers like her may find could only be in prayer and surrendering everything to God. And at times like this, I couldn’t help praying also to God to always protect my children and all the children in this world, to keep them safe from harm, abuse and pain.. and to ask the our patron, The Child Jesus, to please not to test me through my children. Please please God, I could bear anything…anything at all as long as it’s not my children.