Another momma and daddy

Another momma and daddy are laying their heads down tonight with broken hearts and swollen eyes. This very morning a 21 year old man, David, laid in a bed attached to tubes but breathing, heart beating, body and soul still working. Then like a whisper of wind it is gone. Life. Heart seizes to beat, lungs empty out and life as we know it is no more. Quiet, empty. To watch someone die is unforgettable. One moment there is life and the next it is gone. How does that happen? But more importantly why? Why does it happen? Why does it happen to people so young, people who are someone's precious child? I know the politically correct thing to say is Why shouldn't it happen to me? Why not me? No, that is not the question we ask. Why our family? And in all the grieving and counseling and books there is no answer. And so tonight another family is broken, an empty space is left at the table, a bedroom door is left closed, hole is torn through the hearts of brothers and sisters and people quietly go in and out of the house trying to find the perfect words to mend the mess. But there are no perfect words. There is no soothing salve. There is just pain, raw pain. Tonight in the silence as the momma and daddy lie side by side not knowing what to say. Afraid to reach out and touch for fear of feeling. Numbness creeps in but still yet sleep will elude them. A cry will ring out as the total reality of what has happened settles in around them. No more will they see their precious child. No more. But tomorrow will come and as the momma and daddy get up the pain settles in their bones. They push wearily around the house as they struggle to put one foot in front of the other knowing this is their new life, their new shuffle. But hope is on the horizon that someday when they too draw their last breath and their heart slowly stops beating they will leave this place called home and enter into a kingdom where they will once again hold tight to that precious child and as Jesus comes to wrap His arms around them all He will show them the why, the beauty of what one life did for others, the entire picture and what was once darkness will become light. That is day they cling to. My prayers go out to David's family and may the peace and love of Jesus surround them as they lie there tonight, weeping.