Mourning by morning
As the world is mourning the loss of some big stars this past week, my wife and I are mourning a couple more personal losses:
This past year Jenny taught a pretty remarkable kid, Vincent. I only hear about the students that my wife really likes, and the ones she really has trouble with, and I heard about this kid, for good reasons, more than once. You can read the details of the car accident that caused his death, and some anecdotes about his life in this article on the sun, but to call him an inspiration may be too mild. The Mount View community is much better for having known him, and it will be a significant loss.
Then over the weekend one of my professors and her 7 year old daughter were also killed in a car accident. Their story is here in the sun. She was an extremely accomplished counselor and professor who leaves behind her husband and 5 other daughters. She was one of those professors that I looked up to both as a counselor and as a parent and hoped that I could one day be where she was.
Both of these deaths have rocked my faith. It’s hard to consider these three people and not think of all they had to look forward to. It’s hard to think about them without thinking of the terrible grief that their communities and more importantly their families are feeling right now. It’s hard as a parent to think that these families are where we want to be, people we look up to as families doing it “right”, and not be upset about some seemingly pointless tragedy tearing that apart. It’s hard to know why God would allow such pointless tragedy.
Right now I’m having a tough time considering how God could turn this mourning into dancing. Maybe one day we’ll look back on Vincent and Dr. Murray and think about how special they were to our communities, and how much they taught us and thank God for the chance to know them.
Right now there is only confusion and mourning.
Please pray for the Woodward family and the Murray family.
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