Today ...

[barnhart]

My 20 year old middle son died in a motorcycle accident today. We are doing okay and processing things. Life is quite precious.

O no, Robert... How awful. My heart goes out to you all.

[Robert]

Thank you all for your compassion. I feel cheated because we worked hard for 18 years to raise this young man to 20. He came to us at 2 years old. He was finally turning his life into a positive direction, finding some happiness and he had a vision for the future. It was all taken away by a turn. An older man turned in front of him and he did not have time to stop on his motorcycle. A motorcycle he was very proud of because he fixed it up so it would run and had added several things to make it functional.

I lost the joy of growing old with him in my life.

My hope and peace is he accepted Jesus and is in heaven with my father. I suspect my father even pushed Jesus to the side to get to him first. I could just hear him telling Jesus, "I got this one. He is one of mine." This is the man my father was. This is the kind of men I hope my sons can grow into themselves.

Many others have lost children also. I could sympathize before, but now I understand.

Thank you all for your compassion. It does help.

A line of a song keeps going through my mind: "We will praise him in the storm"

God knows my pain because he lost a Son also.

[Grace]

Thank you all for your compassion. I feel cheated because we worked hard for 18 years to raise this young man to 20. He came to us at 2 years old. He was finally turning his life into a positive direction, finding some happiness and he had a vision for the future. It was all taken away by a turn. An older man turned in front of him and he did not have time to stop on his motorcycle. A motorcycle he was very proud of because he fixed it up so it would run and had added several things to make it functional.

I lost the joy of growing old with him in my life.

My hope and peace is he accepted Jesus and is in heaven with my father. I suspect my father even pushed Jesus to the side to get to him first. I could just hear him telling Jesus, "I got this one. He is one of mine." This is the man my father was. This is the kind of men I hope my sons can grow into themselves.

Many others have lost children also. I could sympathize before, but now I understand.

Thank you all for your compassion. It does help.

A line of a song keeps going through my mind: "We will praise him in the storm"

God knows my pain because he lost a Son also.

I am praying for you and the rest of your family. May the Lord give you grace and strength for the road ahead.

We have some very dear friends who had a son with various learning disabilities. They worked so hard getting him through various schools, him needing lots of discipline, lots of hospital/doctor visits, him being teased and ostracized for his looks and disabilities, etc. As a young adult, he was able to hold a steady job with an employer who was kind and patient with him, seeing through his learning disabilities to the young man he was. He was working hard and the struggles in his growing up years subsided. But at age 23 he died. His mother said the same thing as you are saying. She felt cheated, because they went through so much and when life seemed to settle down with their son, he died.

[Valerie]

Thank you all for your compassion. I feel cheated because we worked hard for 18 years to raise this young man to 20. He came to us at 2 years old. He was finally turning his life into a positive direction, finding some happiness and he had a vision for the future. It was all taken away by a turn. An older man turned in front of him and he did not have time to stop on his motorcycle. A motorcycle he was very proud of because he fixed it up so it would run and had added several things to make it functional.

I lost the joy of growing old with him in my life.

My hope and peace is he accepted Jesus and is in heaven with my father. I suspect my father even pushed Jesus to the side to get to him first. I could just hear him telling Jesus, "I got this one. He is one of mine." This is the man my father was. This is the kind of men I hope my sons can grow into themselves.

Many others have lost children also. I could sympathize before, but now I understand.

Thank you all for your compassion. It does help.

A line of a song keeps going through my mind: "We will praise him in the storm"

God knows my pain because he lost a Son also.

I am terribly sorry to hear of this Robert, cannot even fathom the depths of this kind of pain.

My cousin went through so much as a teen & young adult. When he finally turned his life around, he was hit by a car & killed. I often wondered if it was to take him at the best time lest he fall back again, I just know we have an appointed time and thank the Lord he was raised by a living Christian family that made the eternal difference for him-
May your suffering heart be met with the vision of his joy now until you reunite eternally.

Love and prayers ascending.

[temporal1]

When looking back, we realize there were times we “held together” by prayers of others, alone.
Unseen, unheard, unknown, undocumented, unverified, palpable, prayers of others.

i’ve witnessed it, i’ve experienced it.
On this forum (your forum, Robert) i believe many who never share a written word pray here everyday.
Some, all day everyday.

All day everyday is how we pray for our children and loved ones. Hoping they will know and accept.

God knows our prayers at all times.

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.. prayers for the man who turned in front of your son. and his loved ones. devastation radiates beyond knowing.
prayers he knows Jesus.

[Signtist]

My 20 year old middle son died in a motorcycle accident today. We are doing okay and processing things. Life is quite precious.

Robert, I am sorry.

[Ernie]

I'm so sorry to hear this, Robert...

[Thomas_muntzer]

My 20 year old middle son died in a motorcycle accident today. We are doing okay and processing things. Life is quite precious.

Oh Robert. I just read this terrible news. May God give you and your whole family much strength

[Soloist]

A line of a song keeps going through my mind: "We will praise him in the storm"

God knows my pain because he lost a Son also.

Wife: I have a friend whose baby died that really loved the song Goodness of God, and they sang it for their child’s funeral, which was absolutely beautiful. One of my favorites is The Redeemed are Coming Home. The testimony you gave of your son is really encouraging, although that would be so hard to lose him.

[Dan Z]

Oh Robert, my heart is heavy to hear about your loss. As parents we give our hearts into the lives of our children. May God‘s comfort weave into your life as you mourn the loss of your dear son.