Thursday, January 23, 2014

8 Year Old Dies Saving Family

Tyler Doohan
"No greater gift than to give your life for others..."

Tyler Doohan awoke to a fire in a crowded family trailer...ran to get 6 family members out.  He returned to his disabled grandfather and died trying to save him.  Those in Penfiled, NY call him the hero of heroes--giving his life for the others. 

I do not want to oversimplify this tragedy with my thoughts.  All lives are unique and priceless. 

My mind imagines Tyler awaking in heaven with his grandfather and hearing from some place--
"My son," you just lived several lifetimes, so that now, you can know what heaven really is all about." 

CS Lewis in his book, The Great Divorce, thought that there was such a division between earth and heaven that we had to spend time in heaven  just learning exactly WHY it was heaven...unless that is, you learned and lived heaven on earth. 

God bless you, Tyler...rest in peace.

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