Blink
Blink, is how fast we can be snatched up or down. How can God take a man away from his wife and children? How can all they know him by is family vacation memories and pictures? Only 42 years old and children aged 16 and 18, with a wife left to take care of them? Its amazing what God does, and why he does things. A great friend of the family was taken home to our God of the universe. He can do anything he wants whenever he wants and I just can't comprehend some of the things he does and why he does them. Put yourself in these shoes right now, you go home and your dad is not there, he isn't comming back and all you have is pictures of him. You go home mothers and your husband isn't their beside you anymroe. He isn't there for you to snuggle up against, and isn't there in the morning for you to make cofee for. He isn't there in the afternoons when you come in to cook dinner, there is one less at the table. I can't imagine not having the ability to ask my dad to come to a game at school, or even to have him walk his daughter down to get married. I can't imagine having a family night without my dad being there? Why and how does God just take these people who hold a very important role on earth out of the space just like a blink of an eye? I can't even begin to imagine the pain and emptiness and suffering that partial family is going through. Going down the road again knowing the last time you went down that road your dad was still living, going to the same restraunts that you used to eat at and your dad was still there with you? Can you even imagine what it would be like. Every time your birthday came around your dad isn't there and his birthday came he isn't there turn another year. Well even though this isn't my father my heart and prayers go out to this family who does. I ask for your prayers also, this family has so much to just digest. When they go home each day it has to be a different feeling to know your dad won't be comming home that night, it will be so hard doing the laundry again because you won't have those work pants to put in the dryer or washer anymore. We take people for granted and we get caught up into "they will always be there". We never think that we might have to burry our own parents. But God takes us all at his perfect timeing. We have to constantly continuosily tell them we love them, and show our love to those who don't know us. We never know when we might be going down the road when we might have a accident or when we might have a un-planned death. God takes us in the blink of an eye and some in a pro-longed period of time. I know we here this story every time something like this happens. But God reminded me tonight that this is serious. We need to be more considerate and show our love to one another, don't let that breath go without telling them you love them. Starting a new school year for that family will be so hard and going on a vacation will never be the same. To know that they will not be there and that life will never be the same is so challenging. Only God can give us the strength to get through those things. God is amazing in everything, in death and in birth. Please be in prayer for this family my friends. God Bless.