re: How do you comprehend/rationalize the death of a child?

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I will tell you what the answer isn't: It was all part of God's plan. Had one of my best friends get killed by a drunk driver in broad daylight when he was 14 (and note since he's was the sheriff's nephew, he got off). He and his parents were Southern Baptist, and I won't ever forget at the visitation hearing this over and over again from old ladies: This was all part of God's plan. I know they mean well, but for me, that would be pretty much the single worst thing that you could tell me that God is cruel, wants me to suffer for really no reason, and stripped me of my own flesh and blood just because he "planned it". I hope to God this never happens to me, but if I lose a child in an untimely death, anyone who tells that to me will be asked to leave and to stay away from me and my family for the rest of my life.

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