Do I Just forget and go on?

In the past week I have heard of so much pain going on in this world… 

Death.

Illness.

Sin.

Betrayal.

Nationally & right here in our little community.

A good friend of mine knows a young  mother who was killed in a car accident & my friend is weeping with the children while trying to feed the baby a bottle he’s never had to take… while his 2 year old brother cries over “mommy being broken” because he saw it all.

A young mother goes in for surgery and a doctor makes a tragic mistake.  And she is gone.  Leaving a 7th grader and a 4th grader.

Another young mother suddenly has an aneurism and isn’t expected to recover.

A young father, and husband of an old classmate is suddenly killed while at work in an accident.

A young father has cancer & he and his family sit in another country for over a month seeking treatment for a disease that has taken so many.

A highly respected community leader falls to the sin of adultery and 2 more marriage’s go down the drain. 

All of this in my own little circle of life.

I would imagine that each of you could add one or more to this that you have heard in the last week.

I find myself hesitating to enter into their pain.

My own pain is still too close to the surface.

I may have to acknowledge it’s existence if I enter in to someone else pain.

But, what can I do?

To be quite honest, I don’t know what I can do.  But, something in me deep down does not want to just move on and pretend that I have not been through something so tragic & painful… and God has not shown himself utterly amazing in the midst.

What does that look like?

Pam