Our Tragedy in the News

      Tragedy, crisis, and hardships are inevitable in this life. There is no status we can achieve that makes us immune. It happens to the rich and poor, beautiful and not so beautiful, skinny and fat, healthy and sick – well, you get the idea. I’ve had my share in life, but my miseries and misfortune have been private. Oh, family and friends knew, of course, but it never made the evening news, and was never in newspapers.
      Some dear friends of ours just this week had a tragedy happen that is all over the news. And not just one day, but continuing every day since it happened four days ago. The circumstance is difficult enough but to deal with additional stress of media coverage is something I hope never happens to me.
     These are good people-faithful church-goers who love and serve God wholeheartedly, pillars of the community who are involved in feeding the homeless and other outreaches. What happened to their son (adult son) is devastating enough, but to have personals aspects of one’s life displayed for the world to see makes the tragedy all the more difficult to deal with.
     Their son’s wife shot him in the head. He is dead! The news says there is a history of alcohol, drugs and violence in the home. Whether that is true or not is just speculation to me at this point.

All that matters to my friends is that their son is gone!