My Heart is Heavy

My heart is very heavy tonight as I write this.  My hometown and current town, has lost two very good people from the same family in a tragic oilfield accident.  What makes things worse, is they were father and son in law.  I cannot begin to fathom what this family must be going through and I can only imagine the pain that April must feel finding both her father and her husband dead at the same time.  I truly hope that she didn’t have any of her children with her at the time of finding them.  That would be so sad.  This is such a nice family who would do anything to help a person in need.

We were first hearing about the accident around 8:30 PM last night.  My mom received a text from a friend that said there was a report of a man who fell into a well by Claflin.  I immediately started praying that it wasn’t anyone we knew.  My hometown is very small and almost everyone knows everybody else.  At 10:30 last night she texted me a forward from my aunt saying that it was Curtis and Kebby.  My heart sank.  They were such good people and Kebby and I are the same age.  Curtis went to school with my father.

I also learned this morning that a good friend’s daughter was killed in a car accident in Oklahoma City this weekend as well.  She was just a few days shy of her 18th birthday and had a little girl of her own.  This makes me sad.  I know my friend is hurting and there’s not much you can say or do at a time like this.  Its his child.  Nothing takes the pain away of losing a child but time.

There was also a drowning over the weekend at Wilson Lake.  The man who died was from Hoisington which is just down the road from Claflin.  I knew this man as well.

I”m still in shock by all this news actually.  I know these people.  How and Why did this happen??  Why is God taking them at such young ages?  I know he only takes us when its our time,  but now?  They all had so much life left to live.  I just don’t understand God’s thinking sometimes.  But he only brings us through what we can handle.

Related articles

• Oilfield Work Leads To Two Deaths In Claflin (kake.com)
• 2 die in oilfield accident in Barton County (cjonline.com)
• Man, son-in-law killed in oilfield accident in Barton County (kansas.com)