Heartbreak

It's never easy to lose someone you love. Or to know dear friends are grieving the loss of someone they love. On Friday I found out that the younger brother/brother in law of some of our closest friends was killed in a tragic car accident. My heart just breaks for them and all they and their family are going thru right now.

It's hard enough to deal with a tragedy when you're home. It's a whole other thing from over here. My friends had to make snap decisions: do we go home? Do just some of us go? What about the kids? For how long? Then once those ones were decided, it's a matter of instantly finding around-the-world tickets (and affording them!).

I'm so thankful that we haven't had to deal with this issue. Yet. I know it's just a matter of time (months? years?) before we will have our own snap decisions to make. Maybe because of the loss of someone close back home. Or maybe a medical emergency (severe broken bone or sickness, etc) that will require one of us to accompany one of our kids to Australia for medical help. Then it will be a matter of quickly (maybe a few hours? Maybe just a few minutes?) deciding who goes, who stays, who watches the kids left behind?

So now my friends are on their way home (or maybe there by now), and there's not much I can do besides pray for them and their family. And help watch their kids, who are still here in PNG for a couple weeks without Mom and Dad. (and who are Nathan and Justin's ages).