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Originally Posted by Malvaro
Why couldn't I have died instead?
There are those who have gone on to meet their Maker much too young,
perhaps with an unwritten song in their heart waiting to be loosed & sung.
Why couldn't I have died instead?
There are those who could have discovered the cure to life's diseases,
or boldly guarded our coasts and shores while sailing the dangerous seas.
Why couldn't I have died instead?
There are those whose names and needs I never even knew to pray,
It is through the language of flowing tears and weaping do I now say,
Why couldn't I have died instead?
I'm ready to face my eternity because I have learned to know the Lord,
yet there are those that haven't yet grasped the crimson, scarlet cord.
Why couldn't I have died instead?
There are those who to no fault of their own crossed pathes with Death,
Oh I. For that soul would I willingly give my blood and very last breath.
Why couldn't I have died instead?
There are those whose purpose in life was not completed nor at its end,
not understanding why it all happened, my heart is now torn and rend.
Why couldn't I have died instead?
My dear friend Cai, I will miss you greatly in this short time we call life,
I know you're in a better place now, yet your loss still cuts me like a knife.
Why couldn't I have died instead?
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Mal,
I've been where you are right now ... I laid in ICU with a breathing tube in my throat begging the doctors to take me back into the operating room after learning that the live donor transplant that would have saved my father's life was aborted ... I begged them to take my whole liver ... I insisted he was a better man than I.
I knew this would end w/ his eventual death ... and
this very question haunted me for months after his death in November 2005.
Cai must've been as special as he. This poem gives a glimpse of his greatness and your love for him.
The questions are legitimate ... and great men of God have asked similar questions to He who knows all things
... among them Job, David, Isaiah ...
Yet Renda's answer ... is the right one ...
The writer of Ephesians tells us ...
For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
I also encourage you to read God's answer to Job's litany of questions ...
Job 38 and
Job 39
I know our Redeemer lives!!!!
P.S
To those who knew Cai ... I'm sorry for your loss ... May God hold you and be reminded He's been by our side the entire time.
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