saddened heart for a family who lost a young college freshman daughter the night before Easter.......
my own heart beating wildly with the thoughts chasing each other in my brain of "this could be my daughter"
...........no, my own daughter didn't know this college girl but her entire college community is saddened by the loss....so tragic.......at the hands of an addicted woman at a wheel.....a simple driving excursion turned deadly................and we ask "where are you, God?"
news of a friend's own family member struggling with addiction.......so hard to comprehend and my shoes haven't walked those steps.........I don't know what to say, how to act, how to pray but just....pray.
it can happen to any one.
any race, any religion, any socio-economic status, any belief system.
the sense of hopelessness that turns the body, the mind to drugs. or other addictions.
and the grief.
The grief the parents go through.........the grief that follows the consequences....I can only imagine.........
and yet....glory.
The grief of Christ suffering on the Cross turns to Glory upon His rising.........
and we cling to that promise, that hope, that Glory..........
we turn our hearts and voices and minds and souls to the One who brings the Glory of His resurrection...........
..........His comfort, His Peace.............
"for I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 8:38 & 39
amidst the grief there is glory
and it's only in Him.
“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.” ~John 14: 1-4
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I continually have to give worry over my kids away from home over to the Lord! My heart goes out to the family!
That is very sad, Faith. I will pray for the family and those who are grieving. But thank the Lord we have His comfort and peace through these things, though we don't know WHY bad things happen we are assured of His love.
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