Today my heart is heavy. People I love are in pain. They are facing something I have faced but that doesn’t make it any easier to watch it unfold. Their pain is palpable. I’m reminded of my parents, knowing what my friends will face in the near future. I do not know why my parents are dead. I do not know why my neighbor’s mother is dying as we speak from ALS. I do know that we all have a time that we leave this earth for the afterlife, when our souls leave the confines of our human shape. I know that there is a God, because I see his hand in this Earth and our bodies, and feel him with me. But what decides our time, and why that time is chosen, that’s my question and I think source of discomfort. It’s too easy to say the good die young, I’m sure there are plenty of nasty people that die every day. But to us, when we lose someone we love, and worse yet, watch them waste away and die, it only seems that t...