About a month ago I blogged about a family that had been involved in an accident.  The family was driving home after a visit to see some family.  On the way home the husband/father was driving.  He didn’t remember what happened but their car ended up in a deep pond.  He was able to get out without injury.  He tried to save his family but he could not.  He flagged down help and emergency workers were there soon.  But his wife and two children died.

Apparently the husband/father was under investigation.  Since he wasn’t injured I guess they wondered why he was able to escape while no one else was able to.  I don’t know the whole story or very many details at all.  But ever since that day I have thought of this man numerous times.  The whole story just broke my heart.  I know I asked myself questions after this happened.  Why his whole family?  Why couldn’t one other person have survived with him?  Why do things like this happen?

He had been staying with his parents in another state.  He recently returned home and had seemed to be doing okay.  I can’t imagine ever returning home after something like that.  I just wouldn’t be able to go back.  And apparently he was not okay, as he took his own life last week.  He was found with his Bible, a family picture and his child’s teddy bear. 

I’ve been asking more questions since then.  The Bible says that we will never be given a burden that is more than we can bear.  I think this poor man was given more than he could bear.  And of course, with suicide there are always questions of where your soul ends up.  He took a life.  But we have an understanding God.  If the poor man was just out of his mind with grief and misery, was he in his right mind and making a clear choice?  I just don’t know the answers to these questions.

He lived a Godly life.  His family was killed and he couldn’t stand the pain of missing them.  Is he in Heaven with them?