Senseless Death of a Child - Braden was buried today!

Life is interesting. What is a good day for you or me, is the worst day in the life of someone else.

Dec. 23rd in my family is the birthday of my godchild, a wedding anniversary, the anniversary of my husband's life changing forever in a split second, the anniversary of my mother-in-law's tragic death and today the funeral of our cousin only four years old.

Today, December 23rd, 2007, has an irony to it. My husband was paralyzed in a car accident twenty-three years ago today. His father became ill and the car began to weave. My husband stood up in the back seat and tried to resteer the car but it was too late. The car went off the bridge. The car fell sixty feet down and landed beside railroad tracks, as it was a railroad bridge.

As the result of my husband's heroic efforts trying to save his family, he was thrown in the floor in the front of the car and broke his neck and back in three places on the rearview mirror.

My husband's mother was instantly killed as she did not have her seatbelt on and she shot out the windshield and was crushed to death by the glass.

Today, my husband's family laid to rest a little boy named Braden. Braden was my husband's second cousin. His father picked Braden up for his weekly visitation. Braden was not in a child seat or a seat belt. His father was returning Braden back to his mother and was drunk and hit a tree. Braden fell forward in his daddy's tree and struck his head breaking his neck. Braden went into cardiac arrest and was revived and later died at the hospital.

His grandfather went to the scene of the accident the next day and found a sleeve/tube of Ritz Crackers on the ground where Braden was killed. Those were Braden's crackers. He was a young child happy to be in the company of his daddy.

Braden's father is going to jail as soon as he gets out of the hospital. His earthly father failed Braden but his Heavenly Father never will.

Heaven gets another saint and the prison system is going to get another inmate.

Thank you for the gift of your prayers for our family.