Again?

It has happened again...another student from Paris, MO has lost her life. Another car accident. Again, I have questions that will probably remain unanswered. In the almost 15 years that we have been in MO at least a half a dozen Paris area students have lost their lives as a result of car accidents. This doesn't include the 3 or 4 I can think of that died from cancer or some other kind of disease. Once again, the student who is gone had a connection with FBC, Paris. The last 5, 2 brothers, 2 sisters and now Mary, participated in children's and/or youth activities within the church. What is God trying to say to us? Do these things keep happening because we aren't listening? These are just a couple of the unanswerable questions bouncing around in my head. I was reminded today that ONE DAY we will know and understand; which is true. But in light of eternity, will these temporary earthly problems even be a memory or will they flee away like a bad dream? 


These hard times are small potatoes compared to the coming good times, the lavish celebration prepared for us. There's far more here than meets the eye. The things we see now are here today, gone tomorrow. But the things we can't see now will last forever. 

(2 Corinthians 4:17-18, The Message) 

My prayers go out for the Anglen family. I remember how the unceasing prayers of others helped us, are continuing to help us, through this time in our lives.