Life is too short...

Today, started out being a fantastic day, I was pumped and was in a great mood. I was at work doing my thing when I received a text from one of my very close buddies, it said, "You need to call me ***ASAP!**** Well we talk at least once or twice a month since we've moved, but I had never received a text message like that before from him... I called and got the most shocking news... His wife, one of my very good friends passed away suddenly Sunday night. She was a hard worker, 40 years old, who adored her three kids like they hung the moon. When I lived in Amarillo, I would go and stay over at their house when he would work nights and she was at the hospital working nights. I would stay over there with the kids, wake them up get them breakfast, make their lunches and take them to school.
During our conversation, it was as if it was a dream that we weren't having this conversation.... I mean what do you say to a grown man whose world just fell out from under him? I wish I could have reached through the phone and given him a hug, I wish I could take it away from those kids who will grow up without a Mother.... what do you say? There are no words to make it go away, there is nothing I can do to fix it....
All I can say is; and its the very reason I do it everytime I talk to ANYONE I love or that is in my life.... Make sure you tell the ones who are in your life EVERYDAY how much they mean to you, make sure they have no doubt in their minds how you feel about them, because Life IS TOO SHORT, and it can all change in an instant! Please keep this family in your prayers.


"You don't have to be alone in your hurt! Comfort is yours. Joy is an option. And it's all been made possible by your Saviour. He went without comfort so you might have it. He postponed joy so you might share in it. He willingly chose isolation so you might never be alone in your hurt and sorrow."

---Joni Eareckson Tada