Sorrow....

A couple of days ago, we got the news that a friend had lost his young wife suddenly.  They had only been married four months and she died the day before her 24th birthday.  I cried for him when I heard...how his life will never be the same and how it would feel to lose a spouse and yet have to go on.

God's ways are not our ways!  It is difficult, even impossible, to understand what God's plan is when someone so young is taken.  Why does He take some and leave others??  This isn't for us to try and figure out.  His plan is far greater and, yes, far better than our tiny minds can comprehend.

It does make me count my blessings that I have enjoyed twenty years with my love.  Marriage is many things; changing, sharing, growing (sometimes together...sometimes apart).  Before we said our vows in front of our wedding guests, we vowed to each other that, no matter what happens, we are together for life.  There are NO other options and we must choose to love each other, each and every day!!

Thank you, Lord, for my incredibly wonderful husband.  For his integrity, commitment, faithfulness and the fact that he can still make me laugh after all these years.   I sorrow with Duncan that he and Bethany had only four short months together but I pray that they were among some of the happiest days in their lives.

Life is short!!  Cherish each moment that you have together and don't waste the precious time that God has given you.