Tragedy Strikes

Thursday night I lost my aunt and uncle along with my cousin's wife due to a horrible car accident. My cousin, his wife, three of their kids and my aunt and uncle were driving to Wyoming to see their daughter's basketball game. It was windy and snowy they hit some black ice and the car rolled several times. My uncle was thrown from the car and pronounced dead at the scene, my cousin's wife was also killed at the scene. My aunt was taken to a local hospital with injuries and later died Friday morning from a heart attack. This was such a tragic and unfortunate event I'm still kind of in shock not quite sure how to wrap my mind arround this. It's hard enough when one person dies but to lose three all at once, it's almost unbearable.

I was over at my cousins house a few days ago and I saw a really good quote on her fridge, I can't remember all of it but I think the most important part said "If God brings you to it, he will bring you through it." I think that's very comforting to someone who is grieving over the loss of a loved one, and I think the knowledge that we have as members of the LDS church that we will see all those who have passed on again someday is the only thing that can get someone through such a loss. We will miss them terribly but everyday it will get a little bit better and the pain will eventually go away. We'll learn to cope and life will go on. I keep thinking how my cousin's five children will go on without their mom and it just breaks my heart, but somehow someway they will and they know they will see her again. I know they are in a better place, god be with them until we meet again:)