Life-Changing Event

My purpose is to spread love, to teach people how to choose love as a thoughtful response in every situation, circumstance, and interaction. I came to my purpose through the murder of my six year old son, Jesse McCord Lewis. He was murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School in his first grade classroom alongside 19 of his classmates and six educators, in what is still the worst mass shooting in US history in an elementary school. I came home from that day and found a message that Jesse had written on our kitchen chalkboard that he left for us. It was three words, nurturing, healing, love, written phonetically. He was just learning how to write in first grade. The message was incredibly clear to me that that was the solution to what had happened to him, and that if we could focus on love, that we could overcome the darkness. So I took that message and started spreading it in schools, homes, and communities around the country, around the US and the world.