The Saddest Thing

This day on Christmas eve I went to church. I haven't been in about five years but I realized that I'm going to be brave and go more often now. Afterwards, I went to Univeristy Hospital here in Cincinnati to visit my husband who happened to be on-call. Once I got to see him, I went and chatted w/ my friend who worked at the reception in the emergency room. Well I ended up staying for a really long time.
While I was there I got to see a really sad event unfold in front of me. We were told that there were going to be some friends and family members coming in of four people who just got shot. Then I saw that all of a sudden about 10 to 15 people come in asking for one person's name. They seemed to be all worried and eager to see this person. After waiting about 20 mins. one lady who was in the social worker's office came out and started screaming. Everyone else reacted likewise and the whole ER waiting area was full of people yelling/crying/screaming. A few of the realtives/friends reacted w/ rage and they seemed like they were going to go right out and find the person who did the shooting. I've never seen so much sorrow in one room. As I sat watching them, I felt myself starting to tear up as well. It's just so sad that this person just so easily lost their life leaving all those people who loved her.
One of the faces that I will probably never forget was of her ten year-old son. As I was watching him sobbing, I thought how he probably will not end up doing well as well... He will forever think of how his mother was killed just randomly on Christmas eve. The time when people are celebrating the coming of Jesus...not of the death of their mother. Where is this world coming to?