Twisted

I dislike going to wakes, because I have to armed myself with lots of tissues. No matter if they are related to me by blood or not, the tears just pours out.

Got to attend a wake last Feb. 14, 2008. Valentine’s Day….One of our church’s pastor and his wife got killed in a car accident. They had just dropped off their kids in school and was on their way to church when BBBBang!!!! their car was hit by a bus. I would believe the speed of that bus was over its limits because their car was terribly wrecked. I was informed about it by my husband on text and it did not quite sink in, until when i attended.

That day I was expecting me and my husband to be preparing for a romantic getaway but it was farthest in our mind to be attending a wake. It was just the past Sunday our church celebrated its 30th anniversary and the pastors each shared their thoughts about it. From a very heightened celebration to a sudden fall in the senses, the sudden passing away of our pastor, Pastor Kevin and his wife left a wake up call to all of us.

All who attended had mixed emotions. Some were trying to capture the last time they had an encounter with the couple, others were deep in their thoughts why God had to take both, and what will happen to the kids, and a handful who had never met them share in the church’s grief of a lost member. The eulogies shared by those who knew them best was heartbreaking especially when one of them was tasked that day by Pastor Kevin to prepare three flowers for his wife shared hers. And one shared how both couples were in life, with three words…Knowledge,Skill and Character. Such gifted people yet God chose them to have a date in heaven. In a twisted view, they had the most romantic date in the world.

MIND YOU, I am not saying this is how God wakes us up everytime. And it is not for me to question how God does things. After having read about the little girl in the Bible who had lost her family and was taken by the enemy to be a slave, it opened up my mind how God acts on some things and how we as humans should react. The little girl became the servant of Naaman’s wife. Naaman is a powerful leader who had successfully won battles for Syria but he was a leper. This little girl despite her circumstances shared her faith by professing about God’s healing power. In which the man took action by searching out the prophet Elisha and as the story goes he became well again completely. He even vowed to worship the living God.

For those who believed in the Bible which I would strongly recommend, the little girl’s action was plain stupid some would say but for me she was brought up well by her family in that even in any difficult circumstance, even in that loss her faith withstood all difficulties. This is like a wake up call that God is in control and our life is temporary. Like a thief in the night, at the blink of an eye everything ends….even if we are in the middle of doing somethings or otherwise.

I guess I am reminding myself that always …in order to better prepare those around me once I am ‘scheduled’.  To live life to the fullest is one thing Ilike to do but I believe it will never happen, maybe for a day yes but never a lifetime.