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Life is Fragile!!!

The best/worst thing about life is... It is the single most unpredictable thing we all encounter. I don't mean life in the general everyday operations sense. But the actual process of living, and for that matter dying.
We all buzz about in our normal busy routines pretending as if we don't have the time to think about death, and that if we simply ignore its reality, then we can somehow stave off is eventuality.
I think the truth of it all is... NONE of us like not having answers or control. Even over things that we wouldn't care to take control of even if we could.
I think this is the base for every fundamental belief in a "higher power" or "Godly Being", whatever your particular belief dictates. You see... I think we need to feel as if someone or something out there has control of the one thing that none of us "control freaks" want to admit we want no control over.
But with this comes the questions and the emptiness of not knowing!
I had a conversation with someone the other day about belief and faith. As we discussed the plans to bury a very young member of our family, we both new that somewhere there was a plan in place and a decision made by someone other than us.
Where we were both conflicted was trying to find the purpose and logistics behind all of this. The questions immediately followed... Why does God need that 11 year old more than we do? Why would God choose to bring more pain to a family that has already endured so much over the last 6 months? And of course... Why this child God???
There are no ANSWERS to these questions! There are only theories and beliefs. And at the end of the day, none of them make this any easier to face.
I don't know... Maybe someone out there will find the strength from this to approach life with new energy and achieve something they really wanted. Maybe someone else will find the answers to questions they faced about whether they belonged in their family or could maintain a relationship within their family. Maybe through this young man's untimely death, someone else will decide to become actively involved in or even start a charitable organization.
All of these would be very positive and commendable outcomes.
But please, don't try to say that for reasons like these, this young man's demise had a "purpose". Because I doubt any of us would be willing to make the same sacrifice his family has had to make just to enlighten others if we had the choice.
So read this... Like it, hate it, ignore it... I don't care. But after you read it, go and hug your children, your brothers, your sisters, your cousins, your parents, your grandparents... Even your friends!
Because people, whether we want to face it or not, and whether or not it makes sense to us... Life Is Fragile and there's nothing we can do about it !!!

*** "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son..."!
Would you??? I know I wouldn't!
...And this is why I don't have control.

Posted by prouddaddy on 2009-06-24 13:49:39 | Rating: