I spoke with my mom this morning. Today, she and Dad began a trip that they have been planning since, well, as long as I can remember. They’re traveling across the country for a seven-week jaunt that will take them from the lakes of Minnesota to Redwood Forests and then down to Grand Canyon and than home through Texas.
As we talked, I felt like I was living the beginning of a very humorous movie about three old couples (my aunt and uncle as well as some friends of theirs are traveling with them) who trek across the United States in RVs. You know, in a National Lampoon sort of way. Mom and Dad are living the life, I guess. I’m just happy that the trip still happened. My dad suffered a heart attack back in May, something that still feels very surreal since I wasn’t there when he was in the hospital and haven’t been able to see him since.
I’m praying that they see the bigness of God in all of the sights and sounds of nature. There’s a part of me that’s sort of jealous; I have always wanted to visit Glacier National Park in Montana, near the Canadian border. They pictures I have seen look like that acreage might be some of the beautiful in the world.
Mom had very mixed feelings about leaving this morning. On Tuesday evening, a family in their church lost a 19-year-old daughter in a horrible car accident. I didn’t know her. But I do know the family. The young man who was driving survived the accident. Strangely enough, I remember him when he was just two or three; I worked with his mother at a bookstore in my hometown. He was such a cute kid. Mom says he’s very much a great guy (has a beautiful singing voice), but was driving too fast on a winding road, lost control of the car, and ran head on into a tree. He was thrown from the car.
I can’t imagine the heartbreak that each of the families are experiencing right now. One is crushed by the weight of losing a daughter. The other is consumed with the weight of living in the aftermath. There are few words that can remedy such pain, but perhaps the Psalmist came close when he wrote, “Of course, goodness and mercy is going to be with me in the happiness and sadness of this life, and then one day, my soul will dwell in God’s house for all eternity.” May those be the words that guide both families through this awful tragedy.
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