Grief Beyond Understanding

Sometimes in the course of history, especially history we live and make, we lift our hearts to God with a cringe and dare to breathe the question, "why?" Our community experienced one of those days yesterday. About a year ago, one of the recent graduates of the high school where I work, was killed on the ski slopes in Colorado. She was a red haired beauty, tall and athletic. She was working her dream job at a ski resort. Her parents grieve the loss of their youngest daughter. Such losses are beyond the expression of mere words. How do parents cope with that sort of thing? It seems the hemorraging wound is barely scarred over yet and now there is another huge, gaping battle wound. Yesterday morning, a young adult son, age 26, of the same family was killed on a motorcycle inside the city limits of our small town. A car came out of a side road directly in front of him. The driver of the car must not have seen him coming. Oh, the agony of such a thing. How do these parents even endure the news of such tragedy. I can't imagine being the message bearer. Oh, God, send mercy to these dear parents and surviving brother and sister.
John and Janet are Christians. They believe that God is sovereign and though they are surely in a despairing condition, pray that God will heap tons of comfort on them today and in the days ahead. Also pray that all family members will turn toward the Comforter rather than away from Him