Yesterday the world lost a lot of people to the "GREAT BEYOND IN THE SKY" the darling little ANGEL at the top of this blog was just one of them. She was closest to me but others were not yet because of this little girl the deaths of all of them have impacted me dramatically today.
It's made me realize the sheer preciousness of life that we take for granted everyday. Bella lived for 1 year and 4 months and 14 days. That was the extent of her precious life on earth, yet others we all have known and loved may have lived for much longer. And just as they all had a birth date they all now have a KNOWN death date. I have one too, don't know what it is, will never know it because it's mine. But my kids & friends will. It made me see how quick life is and how fast it goes. None of us ever really pays full attention to how FAST LIFE GOES until it's gone. Today I noticed.
Today I noticed that LIFE doesn't stop because a little child dies or a grandfather, husband, wife, sibling or friend dies. The world doesn't take note of NON-celeb deaths, people just die. Death only impacts those that are closest to it the lives of those around the one that's passed on. No one else ever really pays attention. And yet we should. We should pay attention because it's a sign of things to come in our own lives further on down the road. Death is no stranger to anyone. This little angel's 4 year old sibling has had her first run-in with death and little does that 4 yr. old know, that more "run-ins" are headed her way.
Today, after receiving the news of this little girls passing, I took a walk (instead of driving my car) to the pharmacy to get a prescription filled. It was a deliberate walk to clear my head from the sadness I had just received and to bring me back down to earth as this was unsettling to me. On my walk I noticed the sunshine, the breeze in the air, people in cars going north, south, east and west. I noticed workers and old people, people in a hurry to get to the pharmacy line people going slow because time had caught up with them and slowed them down. I noticed that it was important to still smile at people and say hello even though we both were wearing sunglasses and passing each other (people still see you/me through shaded eyes) and it was important to say THANK YOU & PLEASE when being serviced. Why? because today is all I know I got for sure and I don't want to waste it being mean, cold, distant, rude or unkind to ANYONE! Why? Because LIFE is PRECIOUS! People matter, even in a busy world-people matter.
Everyday that we live and breathe DEATH has a good day, by a luck of the draw, a perfect roll of seven on the dice and by sheer GRACE alone, you and I get a "by" today. While we're here, in the time we have left, I believe we owe it to each other to make it a VERY GOOD DAY!
Whatever you do today, do as one of my pastors says; "SATURATE THAT PUPPY (DAY) WITH PRAYER!!
