Late today, I learned of the death of a friend of mine...I met him in seminary and we work in the same presbytery. He was rather socially awkward, but had a wonderful heart and spirit, and in recent years his life really came together. He got married, and he and his wife had just adopted a baby from a foreign country...an adoption they had been working on for a year. D. participated in my ordination just over a year ago, he and I served communion together, and before we started the communion liturgy, he said some wonderfully sweet and touching things about me and my struggle to get through seminary. (it was very difficult for me for a few very good reasons...long story...maybe for another post at another time) He helped me during seminary, which I know was not easy for him as he was a very detail oriented person and I am rather scattered at best, and I was especially scattered while under the stress of seminary.
He was killed in a car wreck...I don't know what happened...I guess the details don't really matter, yet we always seem to want to know. I am sad, very sad...for his wife, for the son who never got a chance to know the daddy who loved him for so long from such a great distance. Sometimes, life just sucks.
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