The Messy Work of Christ

This week there was a murder-suicide in our community with three dead in total. 

A regular attendee was the one who was first on the scene and found the body of his brother in law in the driveway.

It was grisly and the attendee wasn't looking forward to going to the crime scene again, especially alone.

While he was at the hospital where his sister was dying he got a phone call.

In that call a member of Pine Grove UMC shared his love and prayers, but also shared that he had either covered the bloody ground with more dirt or had dug it up to take it away (I wasn't sure which) and had removed all other evidence of the crimescene outside of the house and burned them at his property.

What a gift to that man in an awful time! I can't think of a way someone could have shown greater kindness.