Cruel reality

I came to know this- I am at a loss- what to call this shocking, heartbreaking news? A friend of mine called me this morning - we speak after a long time, but you know sometimes you don't have to be talking everyday to keep up the friendship. She is such a person. I was very happy about the call but the magnanimity of the information she shared in a chocking tearful voice shattered my very being.

Her family - the couple, 2 boys and a girl are all going to attend a "celebration of life" of the older boy's friend (4th grader). What??? Celebration of life for the young child? We both cried. My thoughts wandered, oh my God the unimaginable, unbelievably cruel reality of life had touched upon the family of a fourth grader. That little boy - a student at Stratford, De Anza Campus, got a burst blood vessel in the brain and is not alive any more. A loss of a child - I had gone through a loss of an unborn child - if that was excruciating for me, to lose a child, a 9 year old, how would it be to the parents. God why do you do things like that? Why give and take at such tender age? Sometimes I cannot relate or come to terms with the reality of death. Why should it happen? Whats the equation that You use for all the births in the world? Now trying to rationalize the desperation that I once experienced, I can only pray to You God, again to give them the faith to come to terms with their loss.