Losing Our Grip

Probably only a parent can know the agony of death in such magnitude. We expect to lose our parents to death, we know the loss of friends, and lloved ones, even our spouse, as life comes to an abrupt end. Losing our children to death, however, is without comparison in its pain.

The death of a young man who made a tragic error of judgment is not lessened by the senselessness of it. The Star-Telegram reported it in part – “Responding officers learned that the teen, for unknown reasons, opened the passenger-side door and stood on the door frame, but he lost his grip and fell from the car. . .”

I can only hope the parents and family, as well as friends of this young man, have the comfort of our Savior.

We need to be reminded, by this incident, and thousands of others like it, by Haiti, and Afghanistan, and by ever means possible, that we all have a tenuous grip on life. There is no promise of tomorrow. While we may never “stand on the door-frame” of a moving vehicle, we are constantly perched on the edge of a chasm that leads to death and separation from God forever. Only Jesus Christ offers to bridge that chasm, moving us safely from this life to the presence of God in Heaven.

Share that Good News with greater enthusiasm today!