Tuesday, February 10, 2009

It Comes In Threes?

It was a long week.

My sister and bro-in-law pastor a small church in Arkansas. They have really good friends from their Air Force days. I met the family at my niece's wedding a few years ago. I was especially impressed with the daughter, who was about 18. She radiated Jesus' love in everything she did (helping prepare for the wedding, cleaning the frig, cooking and feeding hoards of people). All with a smile all the time.

She was accidentially shot and killed by her husband. They were newlyweds of less than three months.

Then my daughter called to tell me that one of her daughter's classmates had died unexpectedly at home.

And if that wasn't enough, she called me back to say that her husband's cousins daughter had died in a hiking accident. She was 20.

Sometimes you just don't understand.