This month a young girl was abducted in my home state. They recovered her body yesterday. This story has affected me more than those in other states. When it's close to home you can't ignore it or brush it off. These stories of missing girls are ever increasing and start to numb you because they are so sad that it is just to painful to let it seep into your heart.
Looking at her picture on the web this morning it just brought tears to my eyes. To know that this young girl will never grow up, have her own life, grow old, that her life was stolen from her in the most demeaning cruel way.
A lot of people use these stories to pile up their case for refusing God, for refusing Him as a Loving God. They'll say,
"Why did God let this happen?",
"He couldn't be a God who cared for us.".
And while I a finite being do not have all the answers. I do have a
hoped for outcome for hurting people.
Let this draw you near to God. Don't you know
His heart breaks an innumerable amount more than ours for our own daughters our own sisters!
When tears came to my eyes for this girl my heart broke.
The cry of my heart was,
"God come back!",
"God take your children up to heaven with you, where rapists, murderers, and hate do not exist. Where not one tear will ever fill our eye, and insurmountable joy and peace exist."
This is a holocaust memorial sculpture by Kenneth Treister
