I remember reading how Paul Newman visited Elizabeth Taylor when her husband had died,and she told him off when he started speaking platitudes to her. A platitude is trite and meaningless, and is the last thing a grieving person wants to hear.When Jesus stood outside the tomb of a man called Lazarus,He wept, tears can speak to people, likewise silence,Jobs comforters started well for when they came to him none of them said a word, because they saw how great his suffering was.( Job 2 v13 ) I am reminded of the words from the musical Les Miserables , 'There's a grief that can't be spoken, there's a pain that goes on and on'.Death and tragedy speaks for itself,often we do not know why certain things happen, and we may never know, So where do go from there?,in Ecclesiastes we read,'It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting,for death is the destiny of everyone; the living should take it to heart',( 7 v 2 ).We should not live with a morbidness as regards death and tragedy and yet at the same time we should not ignore them, for they remind us of that hidden but real reality , that we all one day will be ushered into the presence of God,and depending whither we have trusted Jesus or rejected Him, will determine where we will spend eternity in heaven,or eternity in hell.
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