Bodies Found--Believed to be Lizzie & Lyric
I happened to be working late tonight, trying to finish something up. I mentioned before that I had started noticing elevens and today when I was getting ready to leave, I got an article request with an 11 in the identifying number for it. I said to myself, I can take care of this tomorrow, but since there is an 11, I think I'll do it today (I know, kind of illogical and silly). But the journal was in storage, so I had to hike up to the library's storage room. On my way, I was walking by a TV in a lounge where the faces of Elizabeth & Lyric were on the screen. I stopped in my tracks. A minute later, a live press conference about Elizabeth Collins & Lyric Cook-Morrisey started. I had no idea what it was about. The lead investigator in the case came to the microphone and after a brief ramble about the case, he announced that two bodies had been found by hunters in the woods today at 12:45. My heart sank. The woman next to me clutched her heart and gasped. There seemed to be a collective sigh as the few other people in the lounge sank into seats.
They will have another press conference tomorrow, but they suspect that the bodies are those of the cousins who went missing in July. I'm glad I found out immediately, that I happened to be working late, because otherwise I may not have found out until tomorrow since I tend to tune out once I go home.
I have to say that I've been thinking about these girls for months, particularly since I started this blog with a request to everyone to please think about the girls and to concentrate on finding them. I feel terrible for the end these girls experienced and for their families, but I am so glad that the investigation can now move forward and that there hopefully can be some closure. I'm also relieved that the girls aren't living in limbo as kidnapped victims.
For the past week, I've been listening to the Intention Experiment by Lynne McTaggart, and she presents evidence that thinking about an intention--about how something will come about, not just what you want to happen--can influence it to occur in reality. So I have been really concentrating on the kidnapper/murderer and "intending" him/her/them to come forward. I couldn't think of another way to "intend" for this case to come to a close. (I haven't finished the Intention book yet, so I'm still not sure about the methodology of crafting an intention, or exactly what she's talking about with the word "intention".)
In any case, it somehow did get resolved and I am thankful for that. I know that a lot of people around the state and country have also had the girls on their mind, that they've prayed for them and their safe return. Please don't think that I'm suggesting that my or the community's "intentions" or concentration on the girls in any way influenced the case. Apparently it is much more likely that these discoveries will be made during shotgun deer hunting season (December 1-5 and 8-16), the Gazette of Cedar Rapids reported on December 6th, because 70,000 people go out into the fields and forests, more than at any other time of the year. The prayers may have helped, but I don't have any proof or evidence that they did. But regardless of the effect our thoughts have had, I think keeping them in our minds and hearts is important, because the alternative would be to forget them, to not care, and that would be worse than anything else.
They will have another press conference tomorrow, but they suspect that the bodies are those of the cousins who went missing in July. I'm glad I found out immediately, that I happened to be working late, because otherwise I may not have found out until tomorrow since I tend to tune out once I go home.
I have to say that I've been thinking about these girls for months, particularly since I started this blog with a request to everyone to please think about the girls and to concentrate on finding them. I feel terrible for the end these girls experienced and for their families, but I am so glad that the investigation can now move forward and that there hopefully can be some closure. I'm also relieved that the girls aren't living in limbo as kidnapped victims.
For the past week, I've been listening to the Intention Experiment by Lynne McTaggart, and she presents evidence that thinking about an intention--about how something will come about, not just what you want to happen--can influence it to occur in reality. So I have been really concentrating on the kidnapper/murderer and "intending" him/her/them to come forward. I couldn't think of another way to "intend" for this case to come to a close. (I haven't finished the Intention book yet, so I'm still not sure about the methodology of crafting an intention, or exactly what she's talking about with the word "intention".)
In any case, it somehow did get resolved and I am thankful for that. I know that a lot of people around the state and country have also had the girls on their mind, that they've prayed for them and their safe return. Please don't think that I'm suggesting that my or the community's "intentions" or concentration on the girls in any way influenced the case. Apparently it is much more likely that these discoveries will be made during shotgun deer hunting season (December 1-5 and 8-16), the Gazette of Cedar Rapids reported on December 6th, because 70,000 people go out into the fields and forests, more than at any other time of the year. The prayers may have helped, but I don't have any proof or evidence that they did. But regardless of the effect our thoughts have had, I think keeping them in our minds and hearts is important, because the alternative would be to forget them, to not care, and that would be worse than anything else.
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