Twenty-four:

I found out something today that has me shocked. I’m not even sure how to type about it, but I don’t know how else to deal with it right now...

Shawn was a guy who I grew up with. He was one of my brother’s friends, but he and the other guys always let me tag along and be one of the guys. Any time there was a home school event, it was John-Michael, John, Jared, Shawn, and I that would hang together. But that was the old days.

There is a messed up family situation there and he has been stuck in between an abusive father and battered and abused mother in a nasty custody battle. After years of siding with his father, he finally reconciled with his mother... but probably feared that if he did, he’d lose his dad....

This past Friday, while heading home on his motorcycle... which he just bought 3 weeks ago... he crashed his bike and was killed. Shawn was 24 years old. There is talk that it could have been suicide...being stuck in that situation might have been too much.

What do you do in a situation like this? No one ever prepares you to deal with situations of loss... they just happen. Honestly, I don’t even know how I feel right now....that is why I’m writing... please pray for Shawn’s family.

He was only 24.