My daughter called me today crying and upset that a classmate of hers had fallen asleep at the wheel, woke up, over corrected and hit a tree, instantly dieing. I hated to hear her so upset and I wasn't able to do anything to console her. All I could do was tell her that I was sorry and to try to learn a lesson from it. In fact, there are many lessons that could be learned from it. One is about the fragility of life and how it can end in an instant. No one knows when they will die. Teenagers tend to think that they are invincible when in all reality they are naive, vulnerable and overconfident in their own abilities. It wasn't too long ago that I was a teenager and young adult and I remember pretty well how I never had any respect for the frailty of life and how I always thought that it was a shame when people died prematurely but I knew without a shadow of a doubt that it wouldn't or couldn't happen to me. That couldn't have been further from the truth. The only reason why I'm here writing this is because God has allowed me to. Life is God's to give and His to take and all we have is a few, quick years so we need to make the best of them. When I say this, I mean that we all need to accept Jesus and serve our Lord while we can because it can all be over in the blink of an eye. I know my daughter is probably going to read this and I hope that she doesn't think that I'm being insensitive to her because it's definitely not my intention. It's out of love that I'm saying this. I don't want to see anything like this happen to her, and I certainly don't want her to remain an atheist.
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