The headlines report that a teenage gunman took the lives of 26 people today, most of them children.\u00a0 The news is all abuzz on Facebook.\u00a0 Since I have a different attitude about death, I take care not to sound too flippant to those who don’t understand.\u00a0 If we had only one life, I might sing a different tune.\u00a0 The fact is we survive in consciousness after the change called death.\u00a0 Also, whatever happens is God’s will.\u00a0 Everything is done for a designed purpose and, if we’re in the midst of God’s will, how can we not rejoice?\u00a0 I now know death is just like stepping into the next room, and how can I lament someone stepping into the next room?\u00a0 I also know that, on some level, we each agreed before we came into this life as to what we would experience and with whom.<\/p>\n