I lost a friend, a brother, a mentor…the news surfaced of his death on social media and it slammed into me like a ton of bricks. I felt myself unable to breathe, my eyes reading and rereading what was before me…”Found in the ravines of the water, with multiple stab wounds, and suffering a 60 foot fall…,” My heart just broke…the reality that bad things happen to great people every day.
How? Why?
Questions that have no answers. Questions I ask that leave me running in circles. Questions that haunt my mind.
On Sunday, it rained, it thundered…the sky bled with water, it was so violent that it shook my house and woke me from a sleep, the flashing of thunder against my windowpane…I woke up, my breath heaving and I wondered…”What’s going on? Why is the sky suffering so much?” I laid back down but I didn’t go back to sleep…I just listened as the sky continued to rage.
And I woke up hearing news of his disappearance yesterday morning followed shortly by the discovery of his body. What tragic news..