I saw a picture the other day of two young girls sitting next to each other on the doomed American Airlines flight. There was an amazing future in front of them... and then... it's not fair. I am haunted by that picture, because it's so not fair.
We are made in the image of God, and we are made for eternity. Sin and death have stolen us away, lured our hearts far from God with promises of ease and pleasure. We are confused and deceived. Where the promise of Eden, walking in the cool of the evening with God once was a reality, now there is brokenness and tears.
Thanks be to God that we worship a Savior who plans to set all things right. We mourn for what we have lost, for what we continue to lose. We were not made for despair and for pain, which is why it hurts so much when beauty and love is ripped from us. We ache because this is not the way things are supposed to be. Little girls should be allowed to grow up into the people God made them to be. Planes should take off and land as intended. People should dwell in peace.
Until Christ returns, it will ache as we see the evidence of sin's discord woven into our lives. May we look with hope to the one who comes to sew things together and restore community the way it was created.
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