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So two mornings ago, on April 21, detectives arrested Mark Gooch for the homicide of Sasha Krause. Gooch was serving as an airman at Luke Air Force Base near Phoenix, AZ. The 21-year-old is from a Mennonite family in Wisconsin, but I gather he never chose to serve the Lord. Whatever the case, he now stands accused of murder.<\/p>\n
I really appreciate the short poem about his mother, written by…I don’t know who. I have two sources, and they don’t agree. One attributes it to a lady in the Wisconsin congregation; another, to someone in the Farmington congregation. But never mind that — here you have it: <\/p>\n
A mother’s heart is breaking with pain that’s worse than death;
\nA mother’s heart is crushed with shame that stifles every breath…
\nFor her boy, who once was pure and small, and innocent – like mine!
\nFull of boyish charms and lad-like dreams, so tender and so fine!
\nAnd though time has changed him from a boy to bitter man,
\nYet her mother-heart remembers him, as only mother’s can.<\/p>\nDear God, be merciful to her tonight! Enfold her in a hug
\nThis mother heart, whose ev’ry nerve, has borne a wrenching tug.
\nAnd may we, as her sisters, guard with jealous care the name
\nThat to her is still so precious, though besmirched with blackest shame!
\nMay we lift her up in pray’r, and may our words be kind and few
\nAs we tuck to bed our small boys – who will someday be men, too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nPlease read (or reread) this post of mine: Sasha Krause: Lost, Found, Buried<\/a>. It includes a poem by Sasha herself. And this from her obituary:<\/p>\n