Isaiah 57:1

How do you explain tragedy? How do you make sense of something that makes no sense? We go through life everyday wondering what we will wear, what job we will get when we graduate and how we will survive finals. It is during the most tragic times in life that we finally realize how selfish we are. Life is precious. But what makes life important. It is not how much money we make or how many awards we win or how skinny we are. Life is about the people you meet and the relationships you build; because that is what you remember when a life is taken away. I can't explain death and I can't say that I do not get angry with God when a life is taken, but I do know that God always has a reason for every life that is taken. Isaiah writes in chapter 57 verse 1, "Good people pass away; the godly often die before their time. But no one seems to care or wonder why. No one seems to understand that God is protecting them from the evil to come". One thing I do know for a fact is that God sometimes takes people to Heaven to protect them from this earth. So although I cannot explain tragedy and I cannot make sense out of a young life being taken from this earth, I can rest at peace that perhaps God has a better plan in mind. After all, Heaven is a much happier place than earth.