“When death calls, then Heaven becomes your home,” claims the Christian writer of the letter printed in the Iowa State Daily on Dec. 2.

At the end of the feature story on Bible studies, on the front page of the Iowa State Daily of Nov. 16, a Christian student claims that “…God’s plan is bigger than anything I can imagine for myself.” Does that plan include premature death?

No one who views himself as a marionette of God, as a Christian views himself, his life being in God’s hands, is capable of conceiving that His plan for him may encompass premature death.

Was it God’s plan by which the student Jonathan Brown, a professed Christian, was struck and killed by an automobile on Oct. 8? For believing in God, die-hard Christians die easily, but can they accept God’s plan for them if it means dying young?

If we are all in God’s hands, then to die young is to have slipped through His fingers, for God is not so omnipotent that he can ensure longevity for every one of our billions. How might God welcome to His kingdom those who have died young? He might say, “I didn’t call you home, I dropped you.” He might even say, “Death has called, and death is out of my hands.”