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The Red Candle
***** TRIGGER WARNING: Suicide and child loss. There’s a little red candle at our church. It sits right under the pulpit or altar, at the ready. Waiting until we eventually “need” it again. I can go for a while without thinking about that candle, until… Last night, my daughter came home and told me about a commotion down the road. Fire trucks, police and what she assumed was the coroner. So she called a friend who is an EMT and he informed us that it was a murder-suicide and my mind immediately went to a domestic dispute. Although pretty rare out in the country where I live (the murder suicide,…