AWMAC,
I am truly grieved to hear about your loss.
In seminary, one of my friends was killed one evening while going out to pick up doughnuts and a video for his family. He was hit at an intersection by a drunk driver on a suspended license, driving with his lights off. It took some time just to get over the shock that the man I had been joking with in Greek class a few hours before was dead, his wife widowed, and his children made fatherless, and all because a fellow decided that "the man" wasn't gonna take away his right to go out, get blitzed, and then drive home.
A little while afterwards I wrote
this sermon more than partly I suppose as a reaction to some of the people who were maintaining we shouldn't grieve at such a tragic loss...
There is of course, nothing I can say that will remove the pain of such a loss, but if I can let me say don't let hatred for the sinful morons who took your niece's life consume you, it never does any good, quite the opposite.
I'll certainly be in prayer for you and your request to our congregational prayer list. If I can help in any other way, please don't hesitate to ask.
Grace and peace to you,
SEAGOON
PS: I sometimes give out the following booklet written by a British Pastor to those who ask the legitimate question,
why do awful things like this happen, how could God have allowed it? Where is God When Things Go Wrong?
