Not a good week for my community ...

As many of you know, I work at Northern Illinois University.  This has really been a long, tough week.  One of our students went missing eight days ago and there has been no sign of what happened to her.  We hope, we search, we pray, and try to hold each other up.  I cannot for the life of me imagine what her parents are going through.  Such a beautiful young woman ... gone without a trace ...