09/11/2025
Today is 911 +24 years.
24 years ago, I sat rocking my newborn baby, wondering if things could ever be normal again.
Yesterday, Charlie Kirk, an incredibly talented, intelligent, wise 31 year-old father of 2, was murdered, before the world. Itâs hard to understand why horrible, devastating things happen. The older I get, the more I come to understand that this world is broken but thatâs not the end of the story. If this world was where all our focus and destiny ended, tragedies would be unbearable. But heaven is our future and our hope. When we suffer a great loss or someone is taken, Iâve come to see that God is the author of the whole story. He would not take someone to heaven, if they had not completed all that He had for them to do on earth. He doesnât leave things unfinished or incomplete.
So, if we are still here, He still has a plan for our days. Are we actively pursuing what He has for us to do? What is the life work He has laid out for our lives?
Tragedy and loss of life is incomprehensible and devastating to our human heart because God made us to experience LIFE, freedom, and relationship with Him. Death was never his intention or part of His design. Death feels unbearable because it is.
I remember after the death of my mom, I started to understand that graciously God allows grief to sinks in little by little, in âstagesâ, rather than all at ones, or I couldnât have stood the weight of the sadness. Death is a foreign experience that we were never created to endure. Only by His love we are not consumed. (Lamentations 3:2)
Like the analogy of the back of a beautiful tapestry with its messy jumbled crisscross of threads. If thatâs all we saw, we would never understand the beautiful intricate design of Godâs masterpiece.
He has it in hand.
Because of the LORDâs gracious love we are not consumed, since his compassions never end.
Lamentations 3:2
