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Be Not Afraid Accidentsmore help had arrived on the scene, including Evelyn’sparents, who stood in stunned silence and disbelief.Evelyn’s body was later found several hundredyards downstream, caught by a tree. Amazingly, herexpression reflected no terror at all. Despite the panicshe must have felt as she made her last gasping effortsto stay alive, her face radiated peace.Accidents do happen. Some are preventable, or seemto be, at least in hindsight. Others are not. In the caseof an “unnecessary” death, we may find it as goodas impossible to forgive the person whom we holdresponsible. It is the same when we blame ourselves,or are made to feel we bear a guilt. But even when wecannot see the way forward, we can always hang onto the heart’s deepest longing for peace. And we canpray that it will crowd out other emotions – especiallythe temptation to grow bitter, or to wallow in selfreproach.In short, we must trust that even if nothingcan remove the pain of a tragedy, it can just as soondrive us into the arms of God, as into the pit of despair.That can happen, as long as we are open to such apossibility – as the following anecdote about Karen, anacquaintance, shows.A missionary in Haiti, Karen lost her three-monthold,Hannah, to a freak accident in their home:8