Trees...

When you walk past a tree in the fall, you don't think 'oh, this could kill me.'
Do you?
You walk past and gaze at the crisp leaves that are sure to fall soon, bringing snow flakes shortly after.
You think of pumpkins and apple cider and Thanksgiving Day with your family and about how you should have worn a sweatshirt today.
Never would you think that a tree could kill you.
Today was the memorial service here on the campus of Grace College for freshman Mallori Kastner. She was buried yesterday in Wabash.
Last Friday, Mallori and her boyfriend Jeremy were by the lake laying in a hammock.
Apparently the roots of the tree were unstable and the tree fell on the two of them. Mallori died instantly while Jeremy was paralyzed from the neck down. He was airlifted to Fort Wayne and is still there now, though he is alert and is able to move his head. While it is a tragedy that Mallori is dead, I mourn not only for her family and friend but for Jeremy in particular. After he was roused from a surgery on Sunday morning, his parents turned on the radio. The dj was the one to break the news to him that Mallori, his girlfriend, had died. What a terrible way to find something like that out.I can't even imagine something like that. I would be utterly crushed and devastated.
Please, pray for Mallori's parents and for Jeremy's physical and emotional recovery.