"He stepped aside and tried to make a few calls. Hugging his daughter and grabbing his head, you could tell he was heartbroken. This woman next to him at the front counter heard the whole thing."
“This is the story of a little girl’s love of a green dress, a mother who tries to instill independence, and how those two things came together in the most epic and brilliant combination possible."
Ryland’s uncle Michael Ward told The New York Daily News that he carried his nephew out of the church following the attack, where a helicopter rushed him to the hospital. According to the outlet, he’d found the child “clinging to a church pew” after the shooting.
An emotional Carrie Underwood is still giving me goosebumps following her gut-wrenching performance at Wednesday night’s 51st annual CMA Awards, in which the Country Music Association honored those in the country community who lost their lives this year.
In an instant, Joe and Claryce Holcombe lost children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and a future great-grandchild in what is now being called the deadliest mass murder in Texas history.
“We lost more than Belle yesterday, and one thing that gives me a sliver of encouragement is the fact that Belle was surrounded yesterday by her church family, who she loved fiercely, and vice versa.”
"AGAIN? I found myself questioning WHY God, does this keep happening? WHY are we losing precious souls—lives You created and formed with your own hands—to the monstrous acts of true evil?"
“It’s interesting — on one hand we honor Hugh Hefner when he passes away — the dude was a pornographer. But yet Harvey Weinstein is this demon in culture right now and I said, we’ve got to pick our poison.”
"So if true love speaks the truth as given in God’s word, and as believers we are commanded to love our neighbors as ourselves, then isn’t it a given that to love is to share what we have been given openly and honesty? Wouldn’t holding that back be the opposite of love?"
