A few days ago, I watched the movie Courageous with my family.
From here, I'll say beware - for spoilers will tread here. If you haven't seen the movie and want to, I wouldn't recommend reading any further. If you've already seen the movie or simply don't care, then onward we go!
As I sat, watching the events of a child's death unfold on the screen, we got to the funeral scene. The camera panned across the small casket. It hit me in that moment that caskets shouldn't come that small.
Some small things are cute. Small pastries, small stuffed animals, small animals, small kitchen playsets, small gloves, small hats, small computers. The list could go on and on and on. Those things are adorable. You wind up gawking at them saying, "Oh my gosh! It's so cute! I want one!"
Caskets, hospital beds, breathing apparatuses, canes, casts...these things should never have to be small enough to facilitate a child.
Y'know, I'm not a huge fan of kids. My sisters can attest to that. Originally I had hoped that being around my nephew and my niece for a few months would have helped me gain a new appreciation for kids. All it did for me was make me have that much greater of an aversion to them.
That doesn't mean that seeing kids suffer doesn't rip me in two.
Kids are supposed to run amuck, playing games and making up stories. They're supposed to be creating and building, always smiling and never without hope and joy. Yet in this broken world, we sometimes have to witness the sheer brokenness of humanity by seeing it play out in a child's life. It makes me want to cry sometimes when I see a kid that should have no ambitions, fighting for their life. How heart-breaking.
Crazy as it seems though, these kids seem to be so optimistic. You constantly hear about these brave little children struggling against the hardest things imaginable. Thank God for that great representation of hope. I can't heal them, but I can surely pray for them, and for those that watch over them.
Personally, I look forward to when all that pain is gone.
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Currently Listening to: "Mirror Mirror" by Jeff Williams feat. Casey Lee Williams
1 comment:
I have not seen that movie, but after reading your post, I don't think I want to. I deal with death far too often as it is.
And you are completely right: some things really should NOT come that small.
And also, I know that for the moment you're not a huge fan of my kids (I get it, small ones can be super annoying, and what's with all that gunk that's constantly coming from all of their orificies, can't they keep it together? yeesh!), but I'm pretty confident that you'll learn to like them more as they get older, you know, as long as they are in to fun things like Narnia, so there's hope yet :)
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