I was catching up on last week’s Dr. Phil and he had a very
upsetting story last Friday. A few years
ago, he had a family on whose daughter had disappeared. The parents suspected her husband had killed
her. There were two young children (3
and 5) and there was a suspicion that the children may have actually seen the
father kill their mother.
Last Friday, there was a horrible update. No further information on what had happened
to the wife had come to light. The
husband had lost his final custody battle but was still permitted supervised
visitation. The children ran into the
house but he slammed the door on the social worker. She called the police and before she could
even finish explaining what had happened, the house exploded into flames. The husband and children died.
That would be horrific enough but it gets worse. There is evidence the children were attacked
with an axe before the house burned. But
their cause of death was smoke inhalation.
It is terrifying and saddening to realize how those boys
must have died. My heart goes out to the
social worker. Reports say she is
traumatized and devastated and I don’t blame her one bit for what happened.
There was an X-files episode which spoke about Starlight
children. I have no idea if this is a
concept they made up or one they borrowed from somewhere but the basic idea is
that some divine force collects children who are about to be horribly killed
just before it can happen. In the show,
they were taken bodily. I like the idea
of a divine force who collects the souls of children before the worst can
happen to them. Just takes them away,
leaving their bodies behind, so they don’t have to experience it. I hope it’s real because no one deserves to
die that way.
As for the father, I have a different hope. Some people who have had near death
experiences have actually described something far closer to Hell than
Heaven. And one of the descriptions
talks about experiencing all the pain you’ve ever caused in your lifetime. Another common description of Hell is that you
have to go through loops of impossible tasks or tortures until you’ve learned
your lesson.
I’m not a particularly enlightened, forgive everyone kind of
person. I hope that the father is
suffering all the pain and horror that he caused. I hope he is trapped in some kind of loop
where he is bleeding and struggling to breathe, terrified and betrayed. I hope that there is justice for his family
in the afterlife because we failed in this one.
My thoughts and prayers go out to the family. Nothing can ever make what happened okay but
I hope they can find some kind of peace in their lives.
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