To make this short and to the point, I attended a wake for a 3 year old girl. Yes, it was horrible. I was speechless. How could I offer any kind of comfort to the parents? What could I do to make it better? Nothing! It hurt so bad to see a coffin so small and inside a child lying lifeless in it. Yes I know it was her corpse. Her soul and spirit gone. Her organs gone. Just a body with fluid in it. Sad but true.
I couldn't help but begin to thank God for His faithfulness and His grace in my life. I still have my children. God knows that sometimes I don't want to be a "mom" but that I would die if I lost any of my kids. And yet through my thoughts of selfishness, he has kept my children. And he kept me and my siblings alive for my mother.
There is nothing like death to put things into the proper perspective.
