Real quick and from my heart

[dolfan]

This morning I saw the news of a 6 year old boy who drowned in a local pool here at a birthday party yesterday. I know precisely where I was and what I was doing then, and just how unaware I was of untold tragedy only minutes away from me. And, I read MacUser's prayer request for a cousin's wife, and other prayer requests and it just occurred to me how sudden and permanent is the loss of the people we cherish. It is just sad beyond comprehension. And, I know that God has gone the length of all of time to provide everything necessary to prevent that loss for Himself. I don't pretend to know how God views/knows/experiences "loss", but I do know that He provided His only Son so that neither He nor us would have to know the particular and eternal loss of being with Him. And, I imagine because of that complete and utter offering by Him for us that it must be unspeakable in words we can utter that very loss, just as we find no real words to describe the pains of the family of one little boy and one beloved wife and mother. Lord help us all.

[Tracy]

How tragic and heartbreaking.

Life is a vapor. It really is. On the timeline of eternity, we have about 2 seconds left to live--all of us. We do well to comtemplate that deeply and frequently and let it shake us, so that we live in the light of it to to glory of God.