Thursday, January 22, 2015

Snuffed out

Around 7:30 p.m,  a woman starts her drive home.  

With seat belt fastened, the dial on the radio turned up just a little, she cruises down the country road thinking of all she has to do when she gets there.

Only, she never arrives.

Like the flame on a candle...just like that...her life is snuffed out.

The other driver may have had a bit too much to drink.  The cost for making one lousy decision just took the life of a wife of 37 years.
The mother of 3 children.
Grandmother of 5.

An untimely death.  Fatal injuries, pronounced dead at the scene.

I've thought a lot about her the last few days.  I am quite certain she never knew that day would be her last.  I'm sure she ate and laughed and was thinking of all she had to do over the weekend.  But in an instant...GONE.

I think there are times when we need to wake up to our lives.
Hearing about an untimely death does that.

Makes us notice the deep crimson shade of a cardinal resting on a tree branch blanketed with snow.

or

The laughter of our children as they beat us in a board game.

We all get this gift.  Life.

May we not waste the precious time given us.

  




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