Saturday, April 21, 2007

A Funeral.....

If any of you caught the local news this past week, you might have seen a report on a 13 year old boy that was out skateboarding with some friends in the middle of the night. He was killed when a drunk driver on a suspended license hit him sending him right out of his shoes. Then proceeded to take off... adding 'hit and run' to the list of offenses. Fortunately, he was caught and is now in the Wayne County jail awaiting his trial.

We attended the heart-wrenching visitation last night as this is a relative of ours. A cousin. We lost touch through the years through divorce making this all the more sad. They lived with us for a couple of weeks when they lost their home before moving in with my Mother-in-law for a time. Jonathan was two at the time. I cannot believe that eleven years has gone by just like that.

What do you say to parents who have lost a child or to a Grandfather who has lost his Grandson or to a four year old brother who wants to put on his Power Rangers cape so he can fly up to heaven to get his big brother? It is so hard to make sense of such a senseless tragedy. The hardest thing is, what do you say to someone who doesn't know the Lord in a time like this? I can only pray that through all this that somehow their hearts turn towards Christ. He is the only one who can fill their empty hearts with the peace and comfort they need right now.

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