This mom is also an educator. As she was helping a student with a behavioral problem as part of her job at school, her cell phone rang. With uncontrollable emotions and sobbing, her daughter called from a different school, “There is a shooting in our school. Something awful is going on.” Our conversation begins at this part of the story and takes us through the realization that her son was one of the victims, how she found out, got to the hospital and how she copes with the pain while, at the same time, sees the blessings of her son’s survival. It was my honor to support that mom and her family at the hospital and it has is been my pleasure to have be invited to be part of their family. We are bonded by our encounter at the emergency department that dark and traumatic day.