Watermarked

"Watermarked"

24 year-old son drowned in car wreckage --
"God dead-set against all unnatural deaths. Christ spent inordinate time
delivering people from paralysis, insanity, leprosy, muteness . . . One thing should never be said when someone dies -- 'It is the will of God.' Never do we
know enough to say that!

"When waves closed over the sinking car, God's heart was the first to break."
"Like God herself, Scripture is not around for anyone's protection, just for everyone's unending support. (William Sloan Coffin)

What does it mean to wonder if each death is, sufficiently, for us all?
To imagine a world where every last death called a natural one?

Easter, baptisms, stubborn refusals, no giving up on any least one.
Paul: "Going under the water was burial of your old life. Coming out of it was resurrection, God raising you from the dead as God did Christ . . .
Think of it! All sins forgiven! The slate wiped clean! That old arrest warrant cancelled and nailed to Christ's cross." (God's wall?)