Ryan Suenaga

I just heard that a man I knew as a sort of friend, whom I saw once a year for a week in KC has died suddenly in an accident yesterday. Yes on Easter Day.

He always lived in Hawaii, on Oahu. He was climbing some nearby hills with some climbing buddies. In a dangerous place he fell from the path and was killed.

It is a shock for me. He was only 44. It's hard to believe it.

He was one of these guys who did a lot of twittering. You knew when he got up, had breakfast, and got to work. He also twittered from his phone when he was out riding his bike or jogging.

He was doing this yesterday as he walked, or jogged, the path up and down the hills. In fact he twittered from the hill that he died from. I was skimming his blog just yesterday, perhaps after he had already died.

God is good. He does not wish evil on us. Yet he lets us do what we want. Ryan is no longer with us. He lived loud. I do not know where he is now. But I do know God is good and he loves Ryan as he loves all of us. He did not wish this to happen to him. And yet it did. I cannot explain it.

I am feeling pretty numb right now.