This entire post is me ranting on an atrocity that is so abhorrent to me it's almost incomprehensible - no it is incomprehensible. I hate to rant and rave, but I am beyond calmly expressing my views.

I was reading the news about the mother who put her month old baby in the microwave, turned it on and killed her daughter after arguing with her boyfriend over who was the baby's biological father. What in the world is wrong with people!!! Can you imagine, I sure can't, the kind of pain the baby endured the last minute of her life. This woman commited this act on her own child, a life that lived inside of her, a life being nurtured by her body for nine months. I can't even begin to put into words the anger I'm feeling toward a person I've never met.

I love children. I always have. When I was a teenager I babysat every chance I got, including summers. I enjoyed every minute of it - well, that may be a little bit of selective memory, but I have the fondest memories from my babysitting years.

I have never believed in capital punishment, but I'm really struggling with this woman having the right to continuing living. I don't understand how anyone can take the life of another, but for a mother to murder her own child, and in such a horrendous way, is beyond words, beyond any type of understanding. There is no doubt in my mind that I would die for my children and I want to believe that I would willing sacrifice my life for any child. It is unfathomable to me that someone could be so selfish and conscienceless to commit such a heinous act.

I want to love my neighbor, I want to forgive for any and all sins, but Lord I'm really struggling with this one.