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Be Not Afraid In God's Handsmight think. Naturally, none of us can speak for thedead, and even if we could, it wouldn’t change a thing.God works, as the saying goes, in mysterious ways, andnone are as incomprehensible as the secrets of death.Still, there is great peace to be found in learning to putthose we love in God’s hands – which means trustingthat he will not forsake them.When Lisa was found in a lake near her home early onemorning in June 1978, many of her neighbors wereuncomprehending. Impossible though it seemed, theparticulars of her death made it clear: she had takenher life.At fifty-five, Lisa had been tested more than anyoneI know: of her nine children, one had been stillbornand another had died in infancy. A third was afflictedwith a rare bone disease. Lisa herself had numerousmedical and psychiatric problems, including eczema,schizophrenia, and Parkinson’s disease. She haddifficulty walking, and at times her hands trembled soviolently that she could not feed or dress herself. Ontop of all this, her husband had left her.An active member in a close-knit congregation,Lisa was not without friends. Besides that, she had agood doctor, a nurse who made daily house calls, andneighbors who looked out for her. Her adult children,10