Obituaries

Many people experience tremendous trials that are difficult to understand and accept. They question God’s love for them and even ask themselves, “If God truly loved me, why would He allow me to suffer?” That is an age-old question for which many will never find the answer. Though it sounds simplistic, suffering is a part of life because of the fall of man and sin’s presence in the world. Some years ago, I met a couple whose child was born with a rare condition causing the child to never grow physically or mentally. She lived for several years as the parents endured this affliction that robbed them of the joy

Wouldn’t it be nice to be a child again? To live a carefree life under the protection and provision of loving parents? To spend carefree summers swimming, bike riding, game playing and just ‘hanging out’ with friends. Though it once was the case for so many of us, times have changed and now we must play ‘adult;’ a game that is not really a game. Through the years the carefree life of adolescence has given way to a life filled with great responsibility. The ‘daily-grind’ (as we sometimes call it), includes going to a job every day; and quite often it is a job that we may not like or

Quite often we read something or hear someone speak of ‘random acts of kindness.’ Such acts of kindness are not necessarily an act of bravery like the saving of a child from drowning or rushing into a burning building to save an elderly person who is about to perish. Random acts of kindness are the simple things like helping someone cross the street, picking up a bag of grocery that have fallen from the hands of an overloaded person, or presenting a plate of fresh-baked cookies to the shut-in next door. It does not have to be anything heroic, but a simple gesture from being kindhearted and showing concern for