Comments on: When the Children Go Hide

By: Jean Wise

Jean Wise — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 23:55:50 +0000

so sad and scary. You had my heart pounding and i wasn’t even there. so glad you were safe but how unfortunate for all.

By: Lois Flowers

Lois Flowers — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 23:35:17 +0000

Oh Lisa, my stomach drops and my heart sinks just reading what you experienced. I’m glad the students are trained too, but it hurts to realize that such training is necessary. Just a few weeks ago there was a shooting at one of the five high schools in our city. Nobody was killed, thank God. It wasn’t my daughter’s school, but she was pretty shaken up by it.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 15:04:55 +0000

That is so scary! I’m glad everyone was safe.

By: Barb Hegreberg

Barb Hegreberg — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 00:28:39 +0000

How frightening and comforting at the same time.

I have had preschoolers cry the first time we do a bus evacuation drill.

I have also aided our local police by playing a victim while they did active shooter training.

By: Pam Ecrement

Pam Ecrement — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 22:04:17 +0000

Wow! What an experience that could shake anyone to their bones. It is indeed a tragedy that students have been forced to learn how to try to be safe in unsafe situations. Sadly, it is true for the whole of us and some of us more than others depending on where we live. Public transportation is riskier than we might have expected. Sometimes even being in your own home is not as safe as we might wish with lawlessness growing week by week. We are paying the price and reaping the consequences for a shift from values of morality and decency that pricked our consciences in years gone by. I cannot help but think that eliminating prayer and other things from schools that were commonplace years ago were contributing factors as well as the busy busy lives with parents and kids going in every direction and losing that home base centering. God help us to realize how our choices and lack of them and the race toward the end times scripture speaks of are all coming together more each day.

By: Lynn D. Morrissey

Lynn D. Morrissey — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 17:02:19 +0000

Lisa, I just shared your post on FB. I’m so sorry you, the kids, all there experienced this. I’m sick to death of the gun violence or threats thereof.

That’s all I’ll say.

By: Joanne Viola

Joanne Viola — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 16:00:37 +0000

Lisa, I cannot imagine how frightening this had to be. It is amazing how students are being taught to be prepared for such emergencies. I remember as an elementary student we had bomb drills – sometimes we had to go under our desks and other times, down to the basement. Thinking about it, the drills and preparations made it less scary of a possibility. May we constantly pray for the safety of schools as they hold our most precious ones.

By: Donna

Donna — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 15:00:31 +0000

Oh Lisa, I can’t imagine how you felt in those moments! How very frightening. And a sad statement on our world today. Though like Jan, when I was in the first grade, it was the height of the Cuban missile crisis. We daily drilled on hiding under our desks; and to this day, some 50+ years later I remember the exact words of Mrs. King, my teacher about what would happen if a missle was fired.
My heart aches for the smallest of children now drilled for active shooters in our schools.
Sadly at the hospital nearby , and my hospice we have likewised drilled for active shooters, having had two school shootings nearby in recent years.

By: Barbara Harper

Barbara Harper — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 13:51:02 +0000

What a frightening experience. I’m glad the students had been drilled on what to do so they could keep as safe as possible–yet I am so sad they needed that kind of knowledge and training. The way violence can break out at any moment, I get very agitated in crowds when voices raise in an angry way. It’s like a dropped match or a lightning strike in dry woods–fire can spread in a moment, literally or emotionally.

Once at a red light, I watched someone in the next lane get out of his car and go to another car beside him and start punching the mirror. That driver couldn’t move because he was boxed in by other cars. My fear escalated–what if the guy starts trying to get into the car, what if someone pulls out a gun, what if he sees me looking and comes after me. The light turned green and everyone drove on. It happened so fast, there was no time to call 911 or start filming. But I was shaken for a long time. It’s a crazy world. We need Jesus so badly.

By: Jan

Jan — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 13:43:31 +0000

When I was a girl it was the possibility of nuclear war re: Cuban missile crisis. Every generation it seems has it’s own threatened terror…but every generation has Jesus too…we need him so….