Without Warning
Hello to anyone taking the time to read my rambles. Just so you know, I appreciate it.
Today started out normally enough, but it turned tragic quickly. I found out from my sister, who came running into our kitchen in tears nearly hysterical, that the father of a high school friend of mine had just died. He had been diagnosed with brain cancer nearly a year to this date, and he'd been told even then that there was a good chance the cancer would eventually kill him. Still, by all indications, it happened without warning. As far as I know, his dad hadn't been in the hospital for tests recently, and the whole family had gone out to dinner just the previous evening. Just imagine that. One night, you're with your family and everything seems perfectly normal. And then the next day, your father is suddenly gone. I can't imagine the pain my friend and his mom are feeling.
I wasn't sure how to react or what to say to my sister. She's been really good friends with him for several years and they're both going to be seniors this school year. What do you say at a time like this? Words just feel so unbelievably empty and hollow; all I could do was pray silently that God would give strength and peace to him and his family, and that He would comfort them in ways that we couldn't. The family said they would issue a statement to our high school about when they would hold visitation and the date and time of the funeral service. That's about all I know on that subject as of right now.
Anyway, please, please be in prayer for my friend and his family. There is no feeling worse than losing someone you love with all of your heart, losing a Dad you've grown up with, depending on for so many things, and then to lose him at such a critical period in life. I know God always has a plan even in times of tragedy, and that He was not caught by surprise, but sometimes His will is difficult to understand. So please lift them up in your prayers.
Song of the Day: Big Daddy Weave & Barlow Girl - "You're Worthy of My Praise"
Verse of the Day: “In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire, may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.” - 1 Peter 1: 6-7
Today started out normally enough, but it turned tragic quickly. I found out from my sister, who came running into our kitchen in tears nearly hysterical, that the father of a high school friend of mine had just died. He had been diagnosed with brain cancer nearly a year to this date, and he'd been told even then that there was a good chance the cancer would eventually kill him. Still, by all indications, it happened without warning. As far as I know, his dad hadn't been in the hospital for tests recently, and the whole family had gone out to dinner just the previous evening. Just imagine that. One night, you're with your family and everything seems perfectly normal. And then the next day, your father is suddenly gone. I can't imagine the pain my friend and his mom are feeling.
I wasn't sure how to react or what to say to my sister. She's been really good friends with him for several years and they're both going to be seniors this school year. What do you say at a time like this? Words just feel so unbelievably empty and hollow; all I could do was pray silently that God would give strength and peace to him and his family, and that He would comfort them in ways that we couldn't. The family said they would issue a statement to our high school about when they would hold visitation and the date and time of the funeral service. That's about all I know on that subject as of right now.
Anyway, please, please be in prayer for my friend and his family. There is no feeling worse than losing someone you love with all of your heart, losing a Dad you've grown up with, depending on for so many things, and then to lose him at such a critical period in life. I know God always has a plan even in times of tragedy, and that He was not caught by surprise, but sometimes His will is difficult to understand. So please lift them up in your prayers.
Song of the Day: Big Daddy Weave & Barlow Girl - "You're Worthy of My Praise"
Verse of the Day: “In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire, may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.” - 1 Peter 1: 6-7
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