"People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy."

- G.K. Chesterton
Pray for the Chapmans

Fox News Nashville reports:

According to state troopers one of [Steven Curtis] Chapman's teenage sons was pulling into their Williamson county home tonight when he hit his five year old sister.

The little girl was pronounced dead at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital.

Update:
The Tennessean has more.


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Comments on "Pray for the Chapmans":
1. Bill - 05/21/2008 10:21 pm CDT

Every parent's nightmare.

Dear Lord, may you bring grace and comfort and forgiveness to an absolutely unfathomable grief-filled situation.

2. jen - 05/22/2008 4:45 am CDT

Awful news. I just saw it this morning. My heart breaks for them.

3. Milly - 05/22/2008 4:51 am CDT

No words just prayers

4. Shrode - 05/22/2008 11:24 am CDT

My only prayers right now are just groanings.

5. Lauren - 05/22/2008 2:37 pm CDT

Elisabeth Elliot once said that people have come to her saying how they can't imagine how she survived, but she said that's because they always imagine the tragedy without the grace. God is gracious. But I'm still crying for them.

6. Brandi - 05/23/2008 12:36 pm CDT

Thank you for posting this. I had no idea...I have been praying.
Here is a blog set up for Maria. It also has some sweet home videos:

http://chapmanchannel.typepad.com/inmemoryofmaria/

7. DLE - 05/24/2008 10:10 am CDT

Simply awful.

My novel in progress is about the torment a father feels after accidentally backing over his six-year-old son in the driveway after a fight with his wife. I chose that direction because I couldn't think of any worse burden to place on a person.

To see it play out in the life of such a wonderful family as the Chapmans is just heartbreaking.

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