Eden Sank to Grief - Cole Wixom Funeral Homily/Meditation
Robyn and Richard Wixom of Bloomingdale were part of the church that I pastored for many years. When their twenty four year old son Cole was killed in an Army training accident, they asked me to do the funeral along with Pastor Jim Robertson. I was an honored to share these words. Many of us here are undoubtedly familiar with the words of Ecclesiastes, chapter three; and certainly everyone here knows the truth of those lines, ”For everything there is a time and a season; a time to be born and a time to die; a time to grieve ----” Everyone knows the fact of death; we seldom argue with it until it comes close to us, but most people have a great argument with the timing of death, especially when it takes one so young as Sargent Cole Wixom. Who here has not asked, “Why did Cole have to die? The fact that you would ask such a question, says that you believe that there is more to this whole scenario than we can see. He was so young. Just getting started. He had found himself ...