Death Confronts Us Again.
And we confront death.
This makes three in one year, up close.
Each death takes us closer to carving out where meaningful lives.
We try to make sense of it.
We cannot know why a man of 40 dies and leaves three little children and a young devoted wife. Our good friend is gone. His children are forever fatherless.
She is a widow at 36.
We can only know that we must now step in;
Assume the role that God instructs us to take.
Jesus taught. Specific and clear.
Our little-guy Jack’s best friend is now in need of the men of our community to come around him and be men as God created them to be.
My husband is filled with fierce intention. He hears this assignment personally.
Step in the [enormous] gap.
It’s the only way to move forward today.
When we want to collapse.
We hold our own precious ones close and give them everything we’ve got.
Steve ponders, “there is a replacement for all of us in our work lives. Another employee comes along when we leave. But nobody replaces us as fathers. For a seven-year-old boy, God needs us to step in the gap and be His hands, feet, catcher’s mitt and scout leader.
The sermon at the funeral was pure and holy. It doesn’t make sense. We only know that his life was wildly important in God’s plan.
As is each life.
Today may your heart be filled with peaceful clarity that each of us must live with high purpose. It’s the only logical choice.
