It was my intention to draft an incredible post this morning but, now, I sit here absolutely drained. Words are stalling in my head and so I write, with great sadness.
Bad things happen to good people. Conversely, they happen to bad people as well but I won’t go into that entire debate over the quality of humanity on any level of social acceptance and the issues that befall them.
This is about tragedy in my immediate world. Incomprehensible, heartbreaking occurrences that strike innocent people and destroy families.
Over this past week-end here in New York, a family of seven were killed in a horrific car crash. The driver wasn’t reported to have been distracted other than swerving into a guardrail, losing control and tumbling down a steep embankment. A mother, children and two grandparents who had just arrived in this country…perished.
It’s so easy to offer silent prayers and feel sad inside for such loss but if you have a heart, the question of why comes into play.
At least it does for me.
Early today, I checked local news at home only to read that a local family of four, mother, father and two young daughters, perished this morning in a house fire. Only the son escaped, was hospitalized and released to his grandparents a short while ago. This one hit very close to home for the father was someone well-known to us at our business. A local Police Captain, he was a friend of the community, well-respected on so many levels and always giving of himself. His two daughters attended high school here, one studying to become a nurse.
Again, all I can keep thinking is why?
Back when the earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, I wrote a blog post that asked God to look down on all who were suffering. Today, I ask Him the same for these families and anyone else devastated from a tragedy.
And, for the lack of anything else to say in my prayers, I again ask Him…why?
