Tea: Arctic Storm
Music: King Crimson, "Starless"
Time: Night
This will be short. My leg hurts (the price of playing football past whatever passed for my prime) and it's been a semi-rough night.
With most members of my church's youth group off on a mission trip, and their director overseeing the endeavor, it fell to me tonight to run the show for those who stayed behind (six kids, five of them seventh-grade girls.)
Before the short lesson, on forgiveness and thankfulness, I got to tell them that one of the girls who went on the mission trip is now without a mother. She was found dead in her car last night.
I don't know details, and I'm not going to speculate on what happened. The senior pastor described the circumstances as "tragic" -- but really, isn't any death that leaves an adolescent motherless tragic?
Isn't each death a tragedy, or the culmination of one?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment