CHAPTER 12
CHAPTER 12
OSCAR AND ESTER HERINGER
THE HERINGER COUPLE — PARENTS OF DAVID and Jennie — took many, many days to get used to the absence of their son in their lives, he had always been the joy of home and the hope in their hearts to continue the legacy of preaching. the Word of God to the world, but unfortunately, both David, Ivy, and especially Brian, the child they were expecting, were dead, inside them the future ended there, nothing else made sense.
The death of David's brother had transformed their lives at that time, but there was a difference, they had David to comfort them, to give them the hope they needed so much to continue, to see the miracles of God in their lives in the small things happening around him, David was an expert at making special moments out of simple acts.
But now it was all in the past...
David's last request was that they take care of Jennie, a beautiful little girl, the daughter of the man who had kidnapped him when he returned from abroad.
Not that it mattered to them...
Love had always been its foundation, and love without forgiveness was not love, love without helping others was not love...
But the longing to see his son walking through that door and seeing him screaming:
Mom, my maternal love quota is low, give me a kiss and a hug...
That longing hurt as much as a knife in their poor hearts.
OSCAR AND ESTER HERINGER meet each other at a camp that the church they attended every summer, they were only sixteen years old and it was love at first sight, from the first moment they knew in their most intimate that they would live every day of their lives together.
They never understood why they had not met before, after all, they had been attending the same church for years, but, by chance, they met in a place where they would have a little more privacy to talk about their feelings, their lives, and at church. that was impossible. His parents were always interfering with his friendships, and a boy — girl friendship was never seen well in front of the church back then.
They were married two years later and soon came children, Brian and David, God's gifts in their lives.
Esther's pregnancy was very complicated, she took serious risk and life, and after the twins were born she discovered that she could no longer get pregnant, but as in the bible it was full of women who could not get pregnant and her God showed the world that everything was fine. in his Hands, she trusted that she would have more children, but time showed that this time in particular, the doctor's word must be God's will in her life, no matter how terrible that truth was.
Even though they couldn't get pregnant again, Esther and Oscar felt fulfilled, after all, God had blessed them with two gems, two dreams come true, two children who would be the most loved in the whole world.
And they really were...
WHEN BRIAN DIED IN A CAR ACCIDENT, when he was just six years old, hit by a drunk, Oscar Heringer almost died in his faith — in his soul he had died from the moment he learned of his death — he wanted to let go of everything. had conquered until that moment, the path forked and there were only two choices, death or suffering.
Oscar questioned God as far as he could.
If it weren't for David asking:
— Father... didn't God create the world?
— Yes son...
— Didn't God create man?
— Yea...
David asked more than forty questions along this line of reasoning, and all the questions had the same answer:
Yes, son... yes...
Followed by the same question...
Why was your son saying that?
When David delivered the final blow.
— Then who are you to question His decision? — He is God, the lord as a servant should say amen without questioning absolutely anything, you yourself said that Moses led the people in silence and from the beginning he knew that he would not enter the promised land... reward.
Oscar Heringer started crying like a child, at the same moment as he hugged that angel sent by God in his life.
After that day, David never set foot in a church again-whether evangelical or Catholic-until his wedding day, or any other festivity that deserved attention accompanied by a pleading request from his mother.
Pastor Oscar Heringer paid for the best schools and the best music teachers that existed at the time, but after Brian's death, a part of David had also died along with his brother.
The guilt that David felt over his brother's death was too heavy a burden to carry alone, and as much as his parents tried to take that weight off him, the more David felt it carrying — just like Atlas, who carried all the weight of the world around him. your back.