By tim on 8/20/2008 10:06 AM

It is never easy to make sense of things when someone we love loses their life before we’re ready for them to lose it. We struggle to find solutions that might help us explain and understand an event that can feel unfair and even unjust. There are the implied questions we ask and wrestle with even though we know we may never really find the answers.

 

We want to be strong for each other. The abruptness of the end and the reality that we can’t control so many things about life and death shakes our faith and rattles our view of what life is all about. We are confronted with our own mortality while at the same time we have had someone ripped from our embrace. The separation hurts. We need others to be strong for us.

 

As we work our way through grief I am reminded of all the questions I cannot answer. I can’t explain why this has happened. I don’t know what specific purpose God has ordained to accomplish through this. I have no logical or fair explanation as to why some of us are taken...

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