Summary
When I hear about a murder on TV, I frequently feel frustrated at how the news handles crime or violence. I wish the public could hear about crime with all its ramifications and not in snippets. We need references to crime based on reality, not shock value, sentiment, or political rhetoric in times of tragedy. That’s one of the reasons I wanted to share Marc’s and my story. I wanted to capture the multiple facets of human and community involvement in a homicide case. I wanted to make human tragedy come off these pages and visit with you for a moment.
Whoever you are, I hope I’ve shared in my book that individual relationships are the sustaining hope we have in life, not tribes or science. I simply want readers to know there’s more to a homicide news story than meets the eye. Lives of the victims family and every close friend are affected sometimes for life, but it’s the strength of strong relationships that get people through a personal crisis.
I’ll never forget in the couple months after Marc’s murder, even when I was having PTSD and crying through out each day, I would write in my blog and recall all the love I shared with Marc. I simply basked in the perfect knowledge that God allowed me to know and love this precious man. That bubble of “love” we shared carried me for weeks. It sustained me with a secret understanding of what real life was about. I felt free to talk about love in my blog, while others were mute and barely able to share what people meant to them. I was actually lucky to be saved from a world of
The genuine tragedy in life is to go through it without ever having loved. It’s a sad fact that in this modern age many people think the answer to life is science, but we overlook the need for human support in everyday affairs. It’s in every soul to desire a universe of order, and purpose, like we see in nature. So, in this book I hope to share not a tragic personal experience, but the triumph of love, for without that bond with Marc, there’d be no blog, book, or life for me. And that love sustains me even today.
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I like to give snippets of what’s in my book. I hope it helps you grasp what’s at the core of the story. Will share more soon. Thank you for your continued support!