Head Banger Church

Yesterday was Life Teen Mass or as Kyle called it Head Banger Church. The Mass is geared towards teenagers and a band plays the songs. The songs are not the typical songs we hear at church they are the songs played on our favorite Christain station 104.9 The River. This is why Kyle called it Head Banger Church.

Every time I go to a Life Teen Mass, I cry. I still picture Kyle getting into the music with a silly smile on his face. The Life Teen Services were his favorite.

Today the priest talked about how if you follow Christ two things will happen for sure. First, you will be called to go places you don't want. He used the example that Jesus had to go to the Cross even though he asked not to have this happen in the Garden of Gestheme. As Jesus put it though "Your will be done not mine".

As followers of Christ we have gone where we have not wanted to go. We have been to worst fear of every parent-watching their child die. We did not want to go there and asked if it could be otherwise. As Father Joe said if Christ took stock in polls then Kyle would still be here as we voted for him to stay. I am not sure there is a worse place to have to go and if I am lucky I will not find out.

The second thing the priest said will happen for sure is when you are called to the place you don't want to go God will be there for you. This we know for sure as I am not sure how we faced Kyle's impending death with the grace and love we did. I also know we would not have been able to accept Kyle's death without God's grace and love.

That does not mean that we like it. We still wish with all our hearts that God's plan would have been different but it wasn't. Even though we were forced into this place, we know that God was with us the entire time and is still with us.

Our prayer as a family is that we continue to see God's hand in all that happens to us and that we can embrace his plan.