National Missing Children's Day

This is not a day that seems like much of a holiday. In fact, I guess it's not technically a holiday as much as it is a day or awareness. Missing children is something to mourn, not celebrate. I only bring this day to attention because it is something that touches me personally as a parent. No, I don't have any missing children - thank God - but as any parent, I have suffered the momentary loss of a child as they disappeared around a corner before I realized it. That momentary panic and terror that shot through me when I realized I had lost sight of my child - I can't imagine suffering through the heartache of turning the corner and NOT finding my child there.

Just the other day my son "disappeared" on me at my own house. He wandered from one area to another, and since he's just a toddler, he didn't answer me when I called to him. Even though I knew rationally that he was there, for just a moment I was stricken with panic that someone had come into my house and taken him. I am not even beginning to compare this with the horrors families go through who have actually had a child disappear for real, but when I think about how sick I felt in just that moment, and even after I found him I remained shaken for a while, I can't help but want to make a mention of the cause of finding lost children.

Also, it seems like I'm hearing about a new book everywhere lately. ***SPOILER ALERT*** (just in case!) The Shack, by William P. Young, appears to be all over the place. My mom's group has talked about it. My mother asked me about it. My book club discussed it (some had read it, some had not). I finally bought it, although haven't had a chance to read it myself. My husband saw it and took it to read himself - after telling me that his boss had told him about it. My grandmother mentioned it to me, and then my mother again mentioned it after a friend of hers gave her a copy of it. Anyway, I understand the gist of the story to be about a man whose child is lost. Since I haven't read it, I can't say that it has a happy ending, but I get the idea that the child is not found.

I know it's so easy to be so wrapped up in our own lives that there's hardly time for the lives of others around us, much less the lives of people we don't even know. But if there is anything we can do to help a family in need who has a missing child, shouldn't we make the time?

Love your children, keep them safe. Pray that those who are missing return home safe and sound, and soon.

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