Posted by spriggy on September 26, 2005, at 13:37:40
My mom called (from Alabama) to tell me that two people I knew had died (not together- seperately).
Anyway, my pastor from my childhood (just the neatest man of God I ever knew) was diagnosed with lymphoma last year. He was 65- he fought the thing and believed all this time that God would heal him. He continued to pastor and even went to help Katrina victims while so sick.
He died on Thursday from his cancer. Went to sleep and never woke up.
Then, an old friend from highschool (who married my best friend but they divorced later) died. He was my age ( a few years older). Only 29 years old, came home from work and complained of chest pains. On the way to the ER he died of a heart attack.
His name was Robbie. I kept thinking back to this time we had this discussion about God. We were eating at a Mexican restaurant and I was sharing God with him. He was interested but he kept saying, " But how do you KNOW that Jesus is the right God? I mean, look how big the world is and the universe. How can you be sure?"
And in the blink of an eye- gone.
Death is so weird. You are here one second, and the next you just disappear. I have no doubts in what I believe- I believe in God, heaven (and unfortunately, hell) but I just wish God could've chosen a different means to get us there.
I hate death. It breaks my heart for the people closest to them. Especially Robbie's parents. He was their only son.Just rambling..
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