If You Pray

I was going to tell you all about my uncharacteristically productive day off yesterday, but that will have to wait.

This morning, I received an email from my mom:

Oh Hon,

Just need your prayers for the new [Baptist Church] Youth Director, his wife and family. He and his wife brought their new baby daughter home from the hospital yesterday, and their two year old son went outside and got into a nearby pond and drowned. He had just turned two. Both grandparents were there, and he just slipped off without anyone seeing him.

Our little community is just devastated. This happened yesterday afternoon. They have not been at the church long.

I do not know this family, but my heart breaks for them. I cannot even begin to imagine the horror that those parents must be experiencing. My faith is not so strong that I haven't uttered a few "whys" and questioned the motives of a loving God. But I know that some things are not for us to know.

If you pray, will you take a few moments to pray with me for this family?