Yes, I'm excited about the Idol results. Yes, things turned out as they should have.
But they don't always.
I heard this news this morning from my friend Marie. She'd heard it on the radio. Steven Curtis Chapman's little girl was killed when she was hit by a car in their driveway. One of SCC's sons was driving the car. That story contains fifty kinds of pain and grief that I can't even begin to grasp. It absolutely breaks my heart.
Though I didn't blog about it at the time, last week I read this article about Dottie Rambo's death. If you don't follow southern gospel music, you probably haven't heard of her, but she was quite a song writer. I think something like 2500 songs? That's significant. She wrote some of the greats like We Shall Behold Him and He Looked Beyond My Fault and Saw My Need. I knew she was over seventy, and I knew that several years ago she'd had health problems, so when I heard the news, my first thought was "Wow, I didn't realize she'd been sick." She wasn't. She was riding in her tour bus to a Mother's Day morning singing engagement in Texas, when high winds caught the bus and it crashed.
So for as excited as I still am for David Cook and his win...I'm reminded that there's much more to life than Idol results.
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My heart is breaking for Steven and his family! Thank you for posting this.
I heard about this at work this morning. How his son must feel... Grief and guilt to depths I could not imagine. May God's grace and love physically surround them
I didn't know about Dottie. On Mother's Day, so sad... Some of her songs are my favorite hymns. She's a role model for me about writing lyrics for God. I can't wait to get to heaven and hear the choir God's been assembling.
So glad David Cook won. As you said, this is a dim light in the shadow of the grief these two families are feeling.
I read about this late last night, and it highlighted (not in a good way) the difference in my reactions to this news (how HARD that's going to be for his son for a very long time!) and the news about Ted Kennedy's cancer. I have almost no sympathy for Kennedy, and God is not pleased with me about that.
I'm keeping the Chapmans (and the Kennedys) in my prayers.
Thanks for your perspective, Bekah. I appreciate your heart!
On Michelle Malkin's site there are two youtube videos that feature the little girl and Chapman. His love for her is so evident...
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/05/22/maria-sue-chapman-rip-2003-2008/
And it breaks your heart.
Chris - I'm glad you offered the link, because I hadn't seen that second one posted anywhere. Wow - what a precious little girl!! I still can't even imagine....
I saw that on the news. That's so sad, especially for the son who must feel so guilty.
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