Another Read

January 27, 2008
10:29 PM

Currently Reading
Scottish Seas
By Douglas Jones

It has been a difficult week with just a lot of grief pouring out of the kids and us with a lot of sleeplessness. I couldn't sleep last night honestly because I was struggling with images of the scene of the accident and having trouble not being haunted with thoughts of his suffering so I got up and pulled a book off the shelf I hadn't read: Scottish Seas by Douglas Jones. I am not going to give a long synopsis of the book, but focus on the particularly relevant details. There was a young boy in the book that lived by the sea. He was terrified of the sea-side cliffs because he was terrified of the sea. He was afraid the sea would reach out and grab him off the cliffs and wash him away. He found himself in a dangerous situation that required him to climb the cliffs in the middle of a storm with the angry sea crashing around him. Just as he thought he was about to be carried away into the sea, he felt a strong hand gripping his arm. His father had found him and was pulling him to safety. Reading that, I had this image of Knox being grabbed to safety by his heavenly Father; but it was the safety of heaven. It was a comforting image that gave me reassurance once again that God was with him and God could limit his suffering, that he is with God so his suffering is insignificant to him, and that God is still with us guarding over our suffering.