My former secretary just called sobbing...

because she just found out that her adult son died in a hotel room in Anchorage. She doesn't know how he died or why he died.  The autopsy is tomorrow.  He just got back from a year in Afghanistan and a friend committed suicide recently and that was very difficult for him.  Regardless of whether he died from physical or mental injury, he is gone and she is in so much pain.  My heart is breaking again.  She loved him so much and he knew that, so I hope she can focus on that at least part of the time.
She is a wonderful woman and was very loving and supportive when Jackson died.  Like most people, she didn't really understand what it's like to lose a child, but she was there and I knew she was.  Now, she is going through the same horrendous pain and devastation that I went through 9 months ago.  My eyes are swollen and my heart sad because I have some sense of what is ahead.  I wish I were closer to her, but I'm now in CA and she's up in AK.  I am hoping she will take me up on my offer to come down here for a change of scenery, whether it be next week, next month or next year.
Please pray for my friend, Carolyn, if you are the praying type.  Or send healing thoughts or hold her close in your hearts.