Baby Brianna

Don't read stuff like this, M.. All it does is hurt your psyche. Losing faith in God doesn't help - lose faith in a segment of mankind, instead. And a small segment at that.

I suggest that you get a happy book to read and delve into it. For every sad thing I read, I have to read a multiple of other things to get the sad stuff out of my head. The older I get, the less I actually try to read the bad stuff. I suggest the same for you. You're probably a relatively new mama and you can't take all of this.

I do want to say that there are some marvelous people out there who do wonderful things. THOSE people are the ones you should focus on.

God would be no kind of great God, if he didn't allow people free will. HE does not make anyone do anything. People CHOOSE to be bad and do bad things.
When you have made bad choices (We all do, throughout our lives) was it YOU, or God making that choice? It was you, correct? So then, why is it God that made this baby get raped? If you made your choices, why was the person who raped all the sudden not at fault...and God made him do it. No, you should lose faith in PEOPLE, not God. Those people will be judged in the end, and you better believe they will have to answer for it.

People make good choices all the time. God didn't make those choices, the people chose to be good. Read those stories. All this doom and gloom will leave you nothing by empty inside. If we started blaming God for letting things happen, how on earth can we hold people accountable for their actions. There would be a new "God allowed it, I didn't mean to" defense.

She was brought home because that was the only way to keep her safe, maybe that thought will help.

What's really sad is that people make choices like this every day. It might even be going on in your neighbors house.

I worked with a young woman who, by age 12 or so, was routinely taped to the bed and sold for beer and drugs. When dad took her to his house the girls brothers decided to do similar things to her. She was pregnant by 15 and that's how my friend came to have guardianship of her.

The dad got the girl an abortion but my friend found out that morning and got an injunction of some sort to try and stop it but it was too late. They were still able to do DNA testing on it and it was so close to her own that it had to be a brothers.

Sad things go on every day. This one is especially sad though, only a baby.

I have a story in my head like that too, which I won't repeat because I don't want it to haunt you as well. I am not a religious person, but the way I explain things like starving children or sick children or other senseless suffering is that whenever something like this happens it makes me really focus on appreciating my children, my health, their health and our good fortune. If everything was perfect all the time I dont know that I would appreciate those things as much, hug my children quite as tight, watch them sleeping with tears in my eyes. I used to work in the World Trade Center and that day, like it was for so many, was a wake up call for me. It fundamentally changed my life in a way that nothing short of that kind of tragedy could have done. I know I am the eternal optimist, but I like to believe that something positive always springs from tragedy. That said, may god bless that little girl and may yours appreciate her good fortune at having a mommy like you.