Yesterday the children lost a classmate. His name was Luke. He was a senior at their school. Luke was diagnosed with Lymphoma in 07. In October 08 it came back as leukemia. Sometime this year he had a blood transfusion and was doing better. It was fun to seem him occasionally at school visiting his friends. The last few days he developed a brain fungus, which we all have but our immune system is able to fight it. Luke's system was not and died yesterday afternoon. One of the bad things it at this point he was cancer free.
After she heard he died Grayce said to me "mom, I prayed for him." I know she did everyone did and I tried to explain it to her but I am not sure I know myself. I know God was ready for him in heaven and I told her he wasn't in pain anymore and he was happy and his hair was all grown back. I just don't know if that is what she wanted to hear!
The school was open today. They were going to have an assembly this morning with counselors and some local pastors. I hope she heard what she needed to hear, along with the other children because I am afraid a childs faith might be real fragile at this age.
Please continue to pray for the Campbell family. I know they have some tough times again.....
Thursday, March 26, 2009
How do explain death to an eleven year old?
Posted by Michelle at 2:16 PM
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I think this is a good lesson in that God ALWAYS answers prayer, but just not always in the way that WE want Him too.
When I was in high school, we had 3 girls die in an accident during spirit week -- they were chased out of a neighborhood by a father of a girl in my homeroom whose house they were rolling with toilet paper. There were 6 girls in the car and the newly licensed driver turned her lights off to hide and then didn't see the curve and slammed into the trees, killing 3 in her car. It was definitely quite the lesson to many - bringing many much closer to God, but pushing others farther away. Things like this happen to remind us that God's plan is so much bigger than any of us.
-- Cousin Kel
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