Yesterday started normally. We were all a little salty during the day from all of the stuff of life that gets to you. Finances, kids misbehaving, husbands misbehaving, work, work work. And then everythings changed. Part way through the afternoon, our friend, Betty received the call that every mother fears. Her only child, her 35 year old son, collapsed while jogging and passed almost instantly. In that one moment, the world changed. Everything else in our lives faded to black and the only thing we could think of was our friend and her grief. In this office, we are a family. We laugh together, love together, live life together. We sat helplessly and watched and prayed as one of our own experienced the most devestating loss imaginable.
It doesn't make sense. Why? Why does this happen to the most Godly woman I know? Why does God take someone in the prime of his life? Just WHY?????????
We all left early. I went home and hugged my kids tight. I prayed over them while they slept and came to grips with the fact that God gave them to me, but they could be taken away at any time. Sad and morbid, but true.
I calles my mom this morning to talk about my dad's birthday and to tell her I love hher. She told me the most profound thing. She said that this would is upside down and inside out beause we weren't meant to be here. We were meant for higher and better.
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