The Orphan Club

On Sunday, my husband's friend passed away leaving his four children in the Orphan Club. The Orphan Club is every parent's worst fear and every child's worst nightmare.

Parent's never want to leave their children alone. They want to be there when their children are happy, sad, excited and angry. They want to hug, ponder, adore, get frustrated, have pride in, and love their children UNCONDITIONALLY. Nothing makes a parent happier. Children obviously need this. This is the way the world was created. A parent's unconditional love helps them grow from childhood into adulthood with the confidence that at least two people love them no matter what. This then is perpetuated to their children and so on.

That is one of the many reasons why I cannot understand how G-d could take a parent from his children. He created an unshakable bond of reliance and love yet at any moment he can take it away. I get that G-d wants to awaken in us empathy, compassion, he wants to challenge us to grow and to become better people. He wants us to realize not to take anything for granted. However, I cannot understand how it has to come at the expense of innocent, adorable children.

These children and many others, unfortunately, have recently joined the Orphan Club. A club no one wants to be part of, but because of G-d's reasoning that is above and beyond my limited understanding they are now part of.

Please G-d if you feel the need to shake us to our very core and wake us out of our selfish worlds, please spare the children. You who created them to rely on their parents as they do, save them from the Orphan Club where membership should be closed.