I don't mean that sarcastically.
I do find beauty in rainy days---I love them.
Not 43 in a row.
But usually rainy spurts are over
before I truly get tired of them.
I just love the cozy atmosphere a rainy day produces for me,
inside my dry, safe house.
I might not be so enchanted with it were I stuck out in the elements.
Today seems very quiet and still.
I was fixing our lunch this morning to slide it into the oven
(so that it would be cooked and magically delicious
by the time we got home from church)
when my mother called with the news.
The little girl we have been praying for since she was
diagnosed with leukemia this past fall....she died this morning.
I can hardly stand to think of her parents and her
brother and her grandmother. Losing one of my children
would be the most devastating thing I can think of.
But when I think of her, Samantha,
I just kind of feel a great sense of relief.
There was so much pain and suffering for that child.
Although it has been only half a year,
her fight with this disease, she has been through so much.
And now it is over.
I just feel glad that she is not hurting any more.
I'm glad for her.
But oh the pain for her family.
At least they know that she is "safe in the arms of Jesus."
She was well aware of who her Savior was.
Now she is with Him.
It kind of makes it hard for anything else in life to seem
of much importance when you are faced with
something like that.
I think of this child's mother---do you think
she cares one iota about the health care bill
or the college basketball tournaments?
I was fixing our lunch this morning to slide it into the oven
(so that it would be cooked and magically delicious
by the time we got home from church)
when my mother called with the news.
The little girl we have been praying for since she was
diagnosed with leukemia this past fall....she died this morning.
I can hardly stand to think of her parents and her
brother and her grandmother. Losing one of my children
would be the most devastating thing I can think of.
But when I think of her, Samantha,
I just kind of feel a great sense of relief.
There was so much pain and suffering for that child.
Although it has been only half a year,
her fight with this disease, she has been through so much.
And now it is over.
I just feel glad that she is not hurting any more.
I'm glad for her.
But oh the pain for her family.
At least they know that she is "safe in the arms of Jesus."
She was well aware of who her Savior was.
Now she is with Him.
It kind of makes it hard for anything else in life to seem
of much importance when you are faced with
something like that.
I think of this child's mother---do you think
she cares one iota about the health care bill
or the college basketball tournaments?
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2 comments:
No. Nothing else will matter as much to that Mom as the loss of one of her children. Unfortunately or fortunately, she has another child that she must help through this loss. May God give her, her husband, child and other family members the strength to get through this time.
There are no words for that kind of pain. I can only imagine. We are praying for peace and comfort for all of that family.
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