Death’s timing is a mystery. It intrudes into our lives and snatches away our loved one. Like a detective, we feel a desperate need to solve our case, to understand why. We sift through clues, search for evidence, and examine all of death’s possible motives for seizing our loved one. Frustration fuels our investigation. We seek answers to our questions but find none. “Why now?” we ask.

Death came much too soon. It left dreams undone, life unlived, words unspoken.

That’s what Alice discovered one morning in her backyard as she sought answers and peace. The past few weeks’ events had touched her soul deeply. As she strolled through the grass, she recalled how her grandson had died just moments after his birth. How odd that birth and death could come so close together. Yet his brief life had changed hers forever. She mourned the loss of never being...READ MORE