Tragic News

Today, in Blue Springs, a four year old boy was run over by a Rent-a-Center truck and killed.

I know this because the news came on the television. I normally do not have the TV set to a news station for this very reason: I don’t want to watch it. It is heartbreaking and infuriating.

Stories such as this always grab my attention and leave me without any sense of balance for a time. And as always, I thank God that my boy was spared. Again, I thank God. And I pray that He wraps His arms around the mother of the four year old boy, comforting her as only He can. I pray that she is open to His comfort, if not now, then soon. I have been as close to the grief that she is feeling as one can be without having actually lost a child. For an hour on the night of July 31/August 1, 2004, I lived without knowing if my son was dead or alive.