Pain

We received the news yesterday that my cousins step daughter was killed, just 4 days before christmas. I feel so helpless and so far away. I feel guilty celebrating Christmas with my children when members of my family are in agony knowing their Christmas will be empty and painful. How do you reach out? What can you do? I want to love them with the kind of love Jesus promises but what does that actually look like?

Teen girl killed in Quesnel crash
Written by FRANK PEEBLES
Citizen staff
Sunday, 21 December 2008


A teenaged girl was killed in a highway crash between Prince George and Quesnel.
The two-vehicle crash happened at about 1:45 p.m. Sunday on Highway 97 near the Ahbau Street Bridge, located about 20 kilometres north of Quesnel.
RCMP Sgt. Reinhold Weissbock, commander of North Cariboo Traffic Services, said the crash was between a southbound Toyota RAV4 and a northbound Honda CRV.
"(The southbound RAV4) pulled out from the slow laneonto the fast lane while attempting to pass another southbound vehicle," Weissbock said. "As the RAV4 switched lanes it lost control, causing the vehicle to go into a counterclockwise rotation. (The) northbound CRV collided with the passenger side of the RAV4.
"The 17-year-old female driver of the RAV4 was pronounced deceased at the scene," said Weissbock said. "The female passenger of the RAV4 and the male driver of the CRV suffered some major but non-life-threatening injuries."
Alcohol and speed were not believed to be factors in the wreck, police said. The investigation is underway. The road at the time was "in good winter conditions," while snowing and about minus-22.
The deceased girl's name will not be released, out of respect for her family, said police. RCMP expressed their deepest sympathies to the victims' loved ones, and also expressed thanks to the people who stopped to lend assistance at the scene until emergency crews could intervene.