A Life Cut Short

This past Sunday Husband and I drove out to Palestine, TX so he could preach for the Crockett Road congregation. On our way there we noticed a very interesting statue in a cemetery and decided to stop and look at it on our way home. While walking around and looking at different headstones we noticed one of a young girl who died on her 21st birthday. Yes, this is just an assumption on my part, but it occurred to me that she most likely died while out "celebrating" her 21st birthday. How sad! How sad to have your life cut so short!

So let us just run with this for a minute, let's say she was out drinking alcohol to celebrate reaching the "legal" age... I wonder, how many people were affected by the loss of this young lady? I wonder if they had it all to do over again, how many of them would discourage her from drinking? Would they still have taken her out to party? Would they still have bought her that first drink? If her parents had realized years prior the very real possibility that their daughter could die from a drunk driving accident, do you think they would have taught her about the dangers of alcohol consumption? Do you think they would have encouraged her to just stay away from it? Told her the evils of it? Informed her of all the pain it could cause?

This is just one example of many of how alcohol can ruin someone's life. We all have either experienced or know someone who has experienced the heartache and pain that alcohol can bring. Yet we still try to justify it. We say it is harmless fun. It helps us relax. It helps us forget. It... It... It...

This is what has been on my mind since reading that poor girl's headstone. It wasn't harmless fun, it very much was anything but harmless fun.

~Lisa