Life As I Know It

A lot of you may know I think about a lot of things and my mind races pretty much all day.  It wanders and often thinks about things a little too deeply.. Some things hit me hard and I just cant seem to stop thinking about them.  That has seemed to happen to me this past week.  Not in a bad way at all but man I just couldnt shut my mind off.  Life has really taught me a lot this past week.

I woke up last Friday July 20, and found out about the movie massacre that happened in Colorado.  The week before my God Mom lost a great friend to an alcohol addiction.  And two days after the shooting I found out horrible news that a dear friend of mine lost her husband in a lightening storm.  These things all hit pretty quickly and made me think a lot about life.  I began to pray and reflect on the lives of my loved ones around me including my own life.  
When I found out about the shooting in Colorado I was very saddened.  All those innocent people lost their lives because someone wanted attention.  It hurts me and saddens me that someone who needs that much help doesnt find it until its too late and until many innocent lives are taken away from this world.  Mom's wont be able to take their daughters out shopping, Dad's wont be able to walk their baby girls down the isle for their wedding day, Husbands/Wives are left behind with a love that can never return.  All these relationships and many more were ruined all because this guy needed some attention and felt lost.  Who knows what was really going on in his head, but the fact is he killed people and doesnt seem to feel much remorse about it.  He took so many things away from this world because he was selfish.  I mean dont people that do this ever think about other lives? Other people? Dont they ever wonder what their Moms would do without them?  No! They dont, and that is the problem.  He didnt think about the future and how people would feel, or what he was taking away from this world.   

I went to church today and our priest talked about the suffering that the world, the nation and even just individuals are facing on a day to day basis.  We are all going through some sort of suffering whether its losing someone close to us in a shooting, an accident, or even just because their time here was up and God needed them.  The truth is we all feel it and we are all affected by it.  Its what we do with it that matters.  You can pretty much turn on the news, read the newspaper, open a magazine and get pretty depressed with whats going on in the world out there.  But why should we get depressed from it?  Ya, sure for some things we should be depressed.. but we are still here on this earth for a reason.  We need to make the difference these people werent able to make.  We need to live in their name and remember life is just a short time down here.  We need to make the best of it.  God gave us this life and we should live it and enjoy it.  Pray for the innocent lives James Holmes took away from this world and their loved ones, pray for their families who are suffering right now, pray for families suffering from accidental deaths.  Pray for everyone out there who might be going through a tough time, pray for the troops who fight for our country every day and their families who sacrifice their time with their loved ones to let them fight for us.  There are so many people out there suffering over many different reasons, but one thing I witness to be true is that prayer and support helps more than we will ever know.  Just watching a friend go through it has taught me so much! Just one simple prayer can warm their hearts for a minute and give them hope that everything is going to be ok.  And if just one prayer can do that then what can many do?  A whole lot more than that! God is on our side, he gave us this life.  So pray for the ones who are suffering so we can lift them up and become the One Nation Under God that we say we are.

This life, as I know it, is pretty dang amazing!! I am so blessed with loved ones around me all the time!! I have awesome friends and a family that is always there for me when I ask them to be, and even when I dont ask them to be.  I am one lucky girl!!  And for all these blessings in my life I thank God! He has always been there for me and knows just what I need in my life.  God is great and life is good!! AMEN!!