It's truly amazing how fragile and unpredictable life is. We go through our day not thinking about the important things like that kiss we didn't share, that phone call we ignored or that email we'd "reply to later". And then one day you wake up and all of a sudden it's gone. You're chance to reply to that email, return that call or kiss that person has been ripped away from you.
There has been a significant amount of loss in my life and the life of my friends in the past year or so. I never thought, that at 32, I would be saying goodbye to friends or even family. I never thought that friends would get sick or pass away. I figured we had plenty of time before we would have to deal with that. But we don't. You never know what path your life will take....and you never realize that it may be much shorter than you ever imagined.
A friend of mine from high school is in the hospital tonight....she and her family have just been told there is "nothing more they can do". She will go home to live out the last few weeks of her life, surrounded by the many people who love her and will miss her terribly. She is 34.
Tonight I ask you to kiss someone you love "just one more time", answer that phone call even if you think you don't have time or answer that email that's been sitting in your inbox for far too long. You never know when the chance to do those things will slip away from you forever....
Beth, may peace be with you and your family in this incredibly difficult and painful time.
So much love to all of you....
xoxoxox
Cancer is so limited...
It cannot cripple love.
It cannot shatter hope.
It cannot corrode faith.
It cannot eat away peace.
It cannot destroy confidence.
It cannot kill friendship.
It cannot shut out memories.
It cannot silence courage.
It cannot reduce eternal life.
It cannot quench the Spirit.
3 comments:
i love you bunches shannon.it does seem as though it's snuck upon us. in the past few years I have lost a few childhood friends as well as some family. its heartbreaking and so very surreal to see that we are at that point these days
<3 annemarie
Shannon, my heartfelt love and prayers are with Beth and all her friends and family. So sorry that you have to feel this pain. I, too, have experienced loss in my immediate family...when it happens everything stands still and makes what is really important in this life very very clear! A big, long hug to you, my friend.
Thank you Melissa! Love and hugs to league school! xoxox
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