The Hunt family is expressing their grief.
After Texas-based Camp Mystic confirmed 27 campers and counselors have died in the flash floods that hit the state on July 4, the Kansas City Chiefs owner Clark Hunt’s family confirmed that among those lost was his 9-year-old cousin Janie Hunt.
“Our hearts are broken by the devastation from the floods in Wimberley and the tragic loss of so many lives,” Clark’s wife Tavia Hunt wrote on Instagram July 6, “including a precious little Hunt cousin, along with several friend’s little girls.”
Indeed, the flood has become one of the deadliest to hit the United States over the past 100 years, leaving, as of July 7, 81 people among those dead, per NBC News, including 75 in Kerr County, where Camp Mystic, a Christian girls’ camp, is based.
“How do we trust a God who is supposed to be good, all knowing and all powerful, but who allows such terrible things to happen—even to children?” Tavia continued. “That is a sacred and tender question—and one the Bible doesn’t shy away from. Scripture is filled with the cries of those whose hearts have been shattered, who still wrestle to trust the same God they believe allowed the pain.”