You paint an interesting picture. The teenagers are right to defy doomed thoughts. Smoke and burning of the glorious temple and Jerusalem were in the story I read this morning in 2 Kings. It all seems so hopeless, tragic, unrecoverable, purposeless--doomed. The question "why?" looms large. It is the same question I have as I daily watch my mother slowly dying of cancer and alzheimers. Yet, the last paragraph of 2 Kings gives hope. This was not the end. Something even more glorious is coming. So it is with my mom. Her faith in Jesus Christ, in His death and resurrection gives her rock solid assurance that she is not doomed but has life with our glorious King of the cosmos to look forward to. So, she endures with great hope. Interesting that yesterday she prayed for all young people --teenagers-- to know the reality of Jesus Christ. The answers are in Him. Did she somehow know that you wrote this poem :)?
You paint an interesting picture. The teenagers are right to defy doomed thoughts. Smoke and burning of the glorious temple and Jerusalem were in the story I read this morning in 2 Kings. It all seems so hopeless, tragic, unrecoverable, purposeless--doomed. The question "why?" looms large. It is the same question I have as I daily watch my mother slowly dying of cancer and alzheimers. Yet, the last paragraph of 2 Kings gives hope. This was not the end. Something even more glorious is coming. So it is with my mom. Her faith in Jesus Christ, in His death and resurrection gives her rock solid assurance that she is not doomed but has life with our glorious King of the cosmos to look forward to. So, she endures with great hope. Interesting that yesterday she prayed for all young people --teenagers-- to know the reality of Jesus Christ. The answers are in Him. Did she somehow know that you wrote this poem :)?
Pretty darn good