Is it
just ME, or do you, too, wonder how on a quiet
suburban street - it could be anywhere – women have been held against their
wills for as long as 10 years?
Sometime in the wee
hours, the “breaking news” came on…a young girl who had gone missing about ten
years ago had been freed by the neighbor who had been living right next door all
the while; he never knew she was there. Impossible, one would think! There were two others.
The details are still
being sorted, the arrests have been made, the town is celebrating, a new hero
has been found among us, and we are left wondering, why?
Jaycee Dugard had been
held captive in the backyard of her abductor’s house for 18 years. She had given birth. She had been missed by the social service
workers who regularly visited that house, checking up on one Phillip
Garrido. HOW?
Have we become a world
of disinterested persons, living alongside one another with no clue as to what
may be going on in such close proximity?
Kidnapped children in
the house next door. Bombs being made in
the apartment that separates you from them by a single walls’ thinness. Children being snatched from their mother’s
arms (please read “We Can Stop Him”)
I believe there are
lessons in everything; I believe looking for the silver lining is worth it and
I believe in hope.
There are 5,256,000
minutes in the span of ten years. In
each of those minutes, if there were just one small speck of hope, these three
captives held onto it and survived by the very grace of it. HOPE!
May none of us, any one
we love, nor any one we will never even meet, ever be in a position where hope
is lost forever. To the mother of one of
the captives who has gone on to the next world, I would tell her that the hope of seeing her daughter again is what
helped keep her daughter alive – for she hoped to see, too, and so , one day,
hopefully, many days from this one, you
will.
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