Questions of the Children by Raymond A. Foss
Impossible questions, real-life questions rang through the church this week, hard painful impossible questions of loss of death in sudden and agonizingly long ways of young lives lost to cancer, to SIDS, of questions and loss for so many who knew them who knew their parents, of the cascade of memory that we all carry of our losses in this human life when one we loved was lost to the mystery of the time of death the choosing of God, beyond our comprehension and oh so far beyond our explanations questions of the children left hanging in the air frozen like the air itself will be all too soon in the cold of winter But we share the gift of the belief in the resurrection and the coming of the kingdom so we have an answer for death in the promise of that future however far off it may be
November 19, 2006 21:54
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