How awful Sharon.  Having so many events close together sure does make one 
think.  Praying for those families.

Vicki

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sharon Hooley" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2006 5:45 PM
Subject: People Dying All Around


> Hi guys,
>
> Lately it seems that people are getting killed close to home.  Where I 
> grew up, we have catholic neighbors whose last name is Blacks, so I'll 
> call them the Blacks.  This couple had a grandson named Blaze.  I think I 
> held him when he was a baby, maybe about 25 years ago, and he was my 
> nephew's best friend for awhile, I think when they were kids, and we once 
> took him along somewhere.  This month, Blaze was working at their 
> family-owned alternative fuel plant, maybe biodiesel.  there was an 
> explosion, and he was killed.  I don't know if he and his family believed 
> in the true way of salvation.
>
> I don't know where this next event happened, or if it happened before or 
> after Blaze's death.  A boy was driving tractor, and he ran over his 
> sister. My mom noticed that the paper didn't say that he did it, which we 
> think is a good thing, because who can imagine what terrible guilt and 
> shame this young man or child is experiencing right now.  We must pray for 
> him!  I don't know if these children are saved either.
>
> I believe this next one happened just this past Friday.  We had seventh 
> Day Adventist neighbors, the Johnsons.  The wife died, maybe one or two 
> years ago, of cancer, but it seemed that she was strong enough to live 
> longer, having been able to walk not long before her death.  Now her 
> husband, in his eighties, was driving along Friday morning, when he ran 
> into a tree. According to the coroner's investigation, he was killed on 
> impact.  My brother passed the scene of the accident, and saw the damage 
> and the ambulance.  I'm not sure if anyone knows yet why he hit the tree. 
> One possibility was that he couldn't see well.  I do believe that both he 
> and his wife are saved.
>
> I've often observed that when one person dies, at least one or more others 
> die soon after.  I think we'll be more ready if we learn to be eternally 
> minded and remember that everything in this world will be destroyed, 
> except for God and His Word.
>
> On a slightly lighter note, my birthday's coming up this Tuesday.  I'll be 
> 41 years old, about as old as my mother was when she gave birth to me! 
> Have you ever heard this birthday song, taught to me by one of my sisters?
>
> Happy birthday,
> Happy birthday;
> Sickness, sorrow and despair,
> People dying everywhere...
> Happy birthday,
> Happy birthday.
>
> And, hey, I wouldn't mind if these people took the chance of being buried 
> in the Holy Land!  hehehehehehehe!
>
> Sharon