Death Happens....

A couple friends of mine lost someone they knew... One was the guy's best friend, the other just a friend. This guy was a 16 y/o highschooler.... he left behind his football team, a buttload of friends, a fun, loving family, and a girlfriend who loved him. He died young... not many around here do. He died never having the experience of a real life outside a shared home, a occupation, a family... maybe he even died without accomplishing his biggest dream. His family is heartbroken.... His friends devastated.... And may the Father pour His peace and grace over his girlfriend.... death happens. If only it didn't have to come so hard...
 The one thing that really caught me when I "FB Stalked" his page.... He died a Jesus Freak. In his own words, he put this down in his information. His bestie posted many heartfelt statuses that would make anybody's heart wrench. His best friend also said that he would eagerly await the day when he would either join him in heaven or see him at the second coming. I do not believe in spirits rising to heaven while the body lays in the grave. I believe in a temporary, dreamless sleep where the dead will awake when Christ comes. But knowing that these boys believed that they would see each other again in the Father's love is enough to send a surge of hope through everything that I know. Both of them appear to be toughened teenagers from going to a rowdy public highschool. These boys have the full weight of worldly things pressing on them and they still believe. They will see each other again, that is for sure. It is a message of hope to me as a reviving Christian. If they can believe in the midst of their battle against the Devil's bombardments, then why can't I in the midst of a sheltered life away from most temptations? Death happens... but in death there is also life... The One forfeit his life, so we might live.
 In His death we are Alive. I will no longer take this for granted. The friend two friends will see each other again. I believe it with all my heart.