My son has cried for the past 5 days and keeps apologizing to me for being such a wimp. Sometimes I just want to crawl in a hole and hide from the outside. All of the pain, sadness and despair that we face; I would never had imagined it when I was a teen. Sometimes I wish I were a child again.
No one knows why things happen sometimes but I have encouraged my children to remember these hard times in life so that he will appreciate their life and the life of the ones that they love even more.  Teens will forget the pain and next month or next week, they will be speeding again, which is what killed his friend last week. I do believe that someone's life will be saved by the death of this young man.
I feel the prayers of you all. I know sometimes we hesitate saying things for a "fear" of what someone may think but I know that God is watching over all of us and if I stay focused on Him and reach out to the hurting, me and my household will be blessed.