When a child dies – no matter how young or old – if the parent or parents are still living, the universal response is: How will they get through it? And many people name it as their worst nightmare.

“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

As we still reel from the recent tragedy at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, the team here at KAE Writes felt that it was important to share a sermon I had delivered last year, on June 24, 2014

Children are playing hide-and-seek; the boy who is “it” stands by a tree with his eyes closed and counts to 100 — then he calls out, “Ready or not, here I come!” and starts to look for his friends, whether or not they have found their hiding places.