Sep
3
2008
In The Company of Job
I attended the funeral today of the daughter of a friend. Sloan Claery was 19 years old; killed in a car wreck over the weekend. I don’t know the details of the accident and they are mostly unimportant to me. What is important is that my friend lost his oldest daughter.
What do you say at a time like that? Nothing. There are no words that will assuage the grief. Grief is a process that will only be accomplished through time… not through words. He does need supportive friends. Friends who, like Job’s three friends, would be willing to sit for days and nights …