God gained an Angel

Posts like this should never be written in blogs. Children should be alive, happy, healthy and playing football with their mates.

They shouldn't die because someone decides that its their time, their destiny to go, to leave our mortal coil.

Children die of illness, accident, disease, life limiting illnesses every day, parents usually get chance to say goodbye to their children before they join God and the mass of Angels in Heaven, or head to the Summer Lands or an Afterlife.

But when someone takes a child and decides that today they are not going home, they are never going to see their family or mates ever again. When someone pulls the trigger and shoots a kid dead in a car park near a public house. When someone commits such a heinous act of murder.

Do they really understand the consequences of their actions. The bullet does not just kill the child instantly, it rips the family, the community the city apart and what happens to the person who pulls the trigger.

Do they have a conscience? do they weep and cry and thing for one moment what they have done? or do they just go back to work the next day and forget what they have done.

Is our society so cold, heartless and wicked that people really have no heart for the crime they have committed.

What else can we say about something so painful, so horrible, so incredible that it should be in the pages of fiction, not the front page of the newspaper.

Our hearts go out to your parents, your family, your friends, your community, your city, your country.

Yes last night someone ended Rhys Jones life and today his family are grieving, his community is in shock, his friends in turmoil.

One thing is certain though, Rhys is up there in the Heavens today, free from pain, protected, free from all fear and pain. He is watching over all his family right now and when the time is right, Rhys will communicate with you. Just as so many loved ones, reach out to their lost loved ones, they are only in the room next door. Call their names and they are there.

Although we can never physically see them, we can sense their presence, we can feel their smile. We can take comfort that they are free from pain, and they are happy.

Rhys' life was cut short by a crime that should never have happened. A man was murdered in Warrington last week trying to protect his car. A lad lost his life trying to protect his girl friend. Senseless tragedies each and every one of them. When will we say enough is enough. Rhys should not have died, neither should any one else murdered in a crime of hate or anger.

It is for God to decide when life is over, not us, not criminals. We cried when the World Trade Centre collapsed, we cried when Jamie Bulger was murdered and now we are crying because someone took Rhys from his family.

Eternal rest Grant Unto Rhys O' Lord and let perpetual light shine upon him, may he rest in peace AMEN.

Heavenly Father, bless his family and his friends, grant them comfort and support them through their grief this day and every day that follows.

May the angels, who have Rhys in their charge, bless his family and his friends at this time of such sorrow.