Before this morning, I don't think I had ever heard the name. I am sure that I don't recognize the title of any of her songs. In short, Mindy McCready wasn't someone who meant anything to my life.
Then, I read the story. Mindy had two sons by two different fathers. The second father shot himself on the very porch where her body was found.
Beset by drugs and drinking and depression, Mindy's children were taken from her and placed in the horrific foster care system.
In a world beset with grief and calamity, Mindy apparently had no one on her side. There was no one praying for Mindy, no one fighting for Mindy- at least not enough.
Now she is gone. No, I did not know Mindy McCready, not in person, not on the TV, not on the radio. Yet, everyone who knows what it feels like to be all alone in the world, should say a prayer for Mindy today and for her family. We cannot know if she was beyond God's mercy. We can only hope and pray that she wasn't.
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It's especially sad because, like other famous performing artists who've died young, it was kind of like watching a slow motion train wreck. When we lived in the Florida her story was on the news frequently as she fled with her children and defied the courts. Were they placed in foster care though? I thought (and I could be wrong, because it's been a year since the stories were on) that the grandparents had custody? It's a horrible story, but I'm hoping, for the sake of the children, that I remember that detail correctly...
ReplyDeleteAnd prayers for the repose of her soul... it's such a sad story.