Good Sunday Morning to you!!
Or good day, evening, or night to you, and
may you have a peaceful and pleasant day, evening or night, wherever you may be!
This morning I find myself very thankful for
my family, my friends, and all those who fill my life with love, friendship,
smiles, laughter, and yes, even anxiety, confrontation and conflict. How about you?
What would I do without the love I am
lavishly and freely given from my family? How bored and lonely
would I be without the invaluable encouragement and acceptance from my
wonderful friends? How simple minded and dull would I and my brain
be without the anxiety, confrontation and conflict I am rewarded with from my daughter (sorry Tiffany) husband (sorry
again Honey) and family and
friends who
sometimes heatedly sport different religious, social, and political
views?
Yet, for me, it takes each of these crazy
emotions and unique people to make my life interesting,
rewarding, and livable. A huge, from-the-bottom-of-my-heart, hug-wrapped
thank you to each of you for so beautifully enriching my life! I am grateful
and thankful for each of you!
Now, what brought me to these thoughts? This
is what’s heavy on my heart this morning;
Our country has, and continues to suffer
devastating and unthinkable tragedies and losses, provoking many emotions and
reactions from all of us. Yet one fact I
can’t help seeing through it all is that
life is fragile.
I just don't think we can, nor should we take anything or anyone in our lives
for granted.
What do you think?
Instead, I believe we must take and run
with every moment given,
with every loved one in our lives,
as well as those we simply
meet by chance.
Agree?
I would invite and encourage each of you to
think about the relationships in your lives;
family, friends, loved ones, or casual acquaintances.
How do they enrich
your life?
What would you miss
if they were no longer in your life?
Are your quarrels
with them really that important?
How long has it been
since you told them that you loved them
Or that they are important to you?
Have you ever told
them?
My friends – don’t
wait any longer.
Seize the moment !
for you don’t know when you might have another.
One of my greatest regrets in life is that I
did not take the opportunity to tell my son one last time that Momma loves him,
on the morning of the day he was tragically taken from me in a terrible
school bus accident when he was just 9 years old. It was a normal day,
like any other day. The last thing I ever expected was that a semi-truck
would hit my son’s school bus, or that I would never get to hug or hold my baby
boy again.
Many of you have
similar stories and share a similar engulfing grief.
This I know.
And I grieve with
you as I lift you up and pray for you.
This I also know – The loss of a loved one,
especially a child, is a lifetime loss, one that no one “gets over.” It
is an empty feeling, an empty spot that is always there – no, it never goes
away. Rather it is a feeling that, over time, you simply get used to
feeling.
However, over time,
this feeling does lessen; you can learn to live with it.
(For those of you who have not experienced
this type of deep grief and loss – that is what it is like. It takes great compassion from those around
one to care for them in deep grief.
Please see my post Grief to
learn more about grief feelings and how to respond to one grieving.
There is a Scripture
– Psalm 30:5, which says;
Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the
morning.
And very true it is. We weep for a time – yes, it may be a dark
and mournful time where we pour out all our anguish and desperation. And after
we are spent and empty, the dark begins to turn to grey, the grey to pale
light, then amazingly the pale light to the sunshine of morning and a new
day. And we find a tiny spark of wanting
to go on, beginning in our hearts, and the desire to see and feel the sunshine
once again.
The timing of this darkness is different for
all of us; for some – weeks; some – months; for some it is years. Some of us need more help wading through the
layers than others. But one thing is certain;
We all need to know that our sorrow matters;
We all need to know that someone else out there cares
that we are hurting.
And along the same lines – no matter what is
going on in our lives, we all need to know that there is someone else out there
who cares about us and what is going on in lives. We all need to know that we matter to someone
else.
So my thought and prayer for today is that
each of you will contemplate the relationships in your life and have the
courage to reach out and
take advantage of every single moment given to you,
to
grow and enrich those relationships,
and to enrich the lives of those around
you,
by your sincere caring of and for them.
And to give generously, from
your hearts to those who are hurting around you.
Will you show
someone that you care today?
Won’t you reach out
and make a difference?
With much love, prayers and gratitude for
each of you,
Mindy
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