One Life

One of my good friends told me some heart wrenching, tear envoking news last night. Her and I have been a bit disconnected lately with busy schedules but we will always be good friends and when we do connect simply pick up where we left off.

She has struggled her whole life with health issues, had a miracle baby two years ago and has been on the mend. Their lives have been hectic yet joyful until last week. My dear friend was taken the to ER, hospitalized and diagnosed with a not so great disease. As the words were spilling out of her mouth through the phone my heart was breaking. Their life has just been turned upside down and she is back at square one with health challenges.

We caught up on life, the little everyday things, big looming decisions, silly stories from our 2 year olds and discussed holiday plans. The conversation ended like all others, saying how great it was to talk, promising to find a night for dinner and hopeful prayers being sent but as I hung up the tears were flowing. God has given us all one life, a precious, fragile life that could last many many years or end ever too quickly.

As I returned to the family room my husband lay on the floor, the two little ones jumping on top with a slew of tractors surrounding them. Really who cares about the "to-do" list, heaps of laundry lining the couch or syrup in my hair from dinner. We only know about today, the here and now; we've been given one life to live, let's live it in the grandest way possible!