Today, my 16 year old daughter found out that her friend died last night. It was a car accident. He was hit by a drunk driver. Four teenagers were in this car and he is gone now. The rest are hospitalized. Six days ago, this boy called her and asked her to hang out. She was thrilled. She spent the evening with him and other friends. She was hopeful, excited. This morning she called me at work, crying, incoherent and in desperate need of someone. Noone was home. All I could do was promise to send someone there to comfort her. I sent my sister Susan to help.
Now, I am home and all I can do is hold her, hug her, dry her tears and listen. There are no words to explain why God took home this young, vibrant 17 year old boy. There is nothing to say to fix it, to bring him back, to make it right.
Never, has it struck me so strongly just how fragile life is. To think that it could have been her in that car is unthinkable. I did not know this boy and my heart sinks to think of the life and love of someone else's son taken away from them. I am mourning for this beautiful lost life and my daughter's heartache. I feel it to the core.
How can I comfort her, LORD? How can I help her through this? You are strong and mighty and yet I am whispering it now. I can't but YOU can. This I ask of you now, Jesus! Comfort Audrey with only the comfort you can give. Embrace her, and as angry and hurting as she is now, I ask that you carry that burden for her. Show her YOUR love through amazing friends and family who will never turn away from her. She will be crying out to YOU with every emotion but I ask that YOU will oh so gently whisper your love to her! She is your precious daughter Lord and I trust you in this!
My words are my prayer and I ask this in JESUS name. Amen
"The spirit of the Sovereign Lord is upon me,
because He has appointed me(JESUS)
to "heal the broken hearted"
To comfort all who mourn,
To give them beauty for ashes,
The oil of joy for mourning,
The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;
That they may be called trees of righteousness,
The planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified."
From :Isaiah 61
