Wife shares inspiring eulogy at police officer’s memorial service

New Year’s predictions are as numerous as there are news outlets to report them. But 2018 is only one day old and we’re already seeing news that we didn’t expect.

The media predicted that Clemson and Oklahoma would win last night’s college football playoff games. Both lost, setting up a Georgia-Alabama championship game next Monday.

Iranian protesters have taken to the streets in numbers not seen since the disputed presidential election of 2009. As of this morning, at least twenty people have died and 450 have been arrested.

Meanwhile, Kim Jong-un surprised the world by calling for direct talks with South Korea. He also agreed to send a North Korean team to the Winter Olympics, to be held in the South next month. NBC News is reporting this morning that delegates from both countries could meet soon.

Closer to home, Zackari Parrish, a recent Dallas Baptist University graduate, was killed in an ambush of law enforcement officers in Colorado on Sunday morning. His courageous wife, Gracie, spoke at his memorial service last night. Holding the youngest of their two daughters in her arms, she said, “I will do everything in my power, Zack Parrish, to honor you, and I will raise these girls to love you.”

In other news, ten Americans died when their single-engine plane crashed Sunday afternoon in Costa Rica. And a bride in Connecticut battling breast cancer died eighteen hours after exchanging vows with her groom.

Why are New Year’s predictions so popular? Because they give us the illusion of control over our lives. But clearly, we can neither decipher nor determine the future.

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According to Gwynne, “The Comanches lived in a world alive…