In the days since a shooter gunned down three children and three adults at Nashville’s Covenant School back in March, Katy and Mike Dieckhaus have found quiet comfort in the pink messages of encouragement that friends sprinkled around their home while they were away.
“We walked into our house, and our house was covered with uplifting verses that are carrying us,” Katy told NewsChannel 5 Investigates.
“And I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to take them down.”
Just above their oven, one of the notes quotes scripture, “Fear not. I am with you. Be not dismayed.”
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Bryan Staples/WTVFWe noted, “You need to be reminded of that every now and again, huh?”
“Yeah,” Katy agreed. “All the time, all the time.”
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In grieving the senseless murder of their 9-year-old daughter Evelyn, Katy came across an email she had written to Tennessee state lawmakers two years before — “the only email that I’ve written to lawmakers.”