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I have the image before me of that camera trick I have seen in movies where the frame is all fuzzy, and all of a sudden it snaps into focus.  Perhaps on someone’s face, or on some beautiful scenery, or who knows what.  I feel like that helps describe the way I felt today while Heather and I watched our good friends Matt and Sarah say goodbye to their little daughter Hannah Mercy and lower her into the ground.  I feel especially sad for them because I have an infant daughter.  And Heather and I have struggled to even imagine what it would be like to loose her.  As we stood by the graveside with them, we watched them kneel by her graveside, while Sarah caressed the beautiful flowers on her little coffin which as beautiful and delicate as they are, only represented the beauty of their little daughter.  Hannah’s daddy read a letter they had wrote for her.  And with many tears we watched as they said goodbye and put her in the ground.  Life for me seemed to snap into focus in those moments.  What is important, and what is not.  My semi-guilt for canceling the clients at work today to make the service quickly evaporated.  The importance of relationships, of friends, of family, of living life together and being with eachother and there for eachother loomed large over matters of work and daily worries.  The importance of being. The minister’s main message today was we do not or can not know why God let this happen.  But we do know that little Hannah is giggling in Jesus’ arms today after her short 1 hour life.  Our world seems to have its way of taking the truths from these types of lessons and making them fade into the background.  But God is gracious to keep bringing them up.