In Memory of Braden Rock/Strength

Monday was hard.  4 of our youth were in a car driving from early morning seminary to school.  As they took a left turn they were struck by an oncoming car.  Three survived but one died at the scene.  The young man who died in is our ward or congregation and his sister was driving the car. 

This has been hard for all of us.  The young man who died is Braden Rock, he was 15 years old and amazing at the rubix cube.  I think I will forever see him holding the cube in one hand and playing the drums with the other, while solving the cube. 



I had the pleasure of working with him a couple of years ago on a Young Men/Young Women project where we created Mormon Messages.  It was a delight to get to know him and since that event he always held a special place in my heart.

I know he is in a good place now and know that the Lord must have a work for him to do.  How grateful I am that he was doing what he was supposed to be doing when this tragedy happened. 

I read this scripture Sunday during Sunday School.  I feel that it applies today:

Old Testament, Isaiah 25:4

"4  For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall."

It is interesting that he does not remove these people from the problems but gives them what they need to endure it. They also have to seek it out. It does not come to them we have to go to the shadow the refuge ask for strength.

I have asked for strength all day today and am grateful to a Father in Heaven who grants it.