When Sadness Surrounds

There have been a lot of heavy things happening around here lately.  Not that there are difficult things my family is personally dealing with but a lot of difficulties happening around us.  I haven't been blogging as much because I just don't know what to say.  Everything I would think to mention just seems so frivolous in comparison to what others are facing. 

Yesterday when I got home from picking up my daughter from school she started to cry.  I mean really cry and it took a little while to work out of her what was wrong.  She eventually told me that one of her friends, a girl who was in her class last year that she eats lunch with every day this year wasn't at school.  She had asked about her and was told that this little girls mother had passed away.  I had heard that one of the moms was very sick last year but the information about what child it was hadn't been shared.  Since we didn't hear any more about it I had assumed there was a turn around and she had improved.  Sadly I was mistaken and on this last Wednesday her beautiful 32 year old mother succumbed to cancer.  All I could do was just hug my daughter, cry with her and tell her the next time she sees this girl she should give her a big hug and tell her she loves her. 

I feel so deeply for this poor little girl.  She has always been so joyful, exuberant and engaging whenever I have seen her.  I hope that this loss doesn't effect that. 

This has been yet another reminder of the immense blessings I have to be thankful for.  This has in some way prevented me from blogging as well.  It's sometimes difficult to talk about all the wonderful things you're experiencing, the gifts we have been given and the blessings we have to be thankful for.  There has been almost a sense for me of how that might seem insensitive or I might come across as a braggart.  The other side of that coin though might be that it could seem like I am ungrateful for the blessing that have been bestowed on me.  This is not the case.  I know that I have been extremely fortunate in my life.  I am thankful for the health that has been granted to myself, my husband, my children and my parents.  I am blessed with safety, security and peace within my home as well as my city and country.  I have been fortunate to have a husband that can support our family and offer my the opportunity to stay home to raise our children.  When you are richly blessed sometimes for some reason that fact can slip our minds.  We get caught up in the little problems or blow out of proportion the everyday annoyances.  Then something comes along, lately there have been quite a few things, that remind you of what you have. 

Today I choose to be grateful in the hopes that those out there that are experiencing difficulty, struggle and pain can know that I am not wasting the gift that I have been given and I know that I am blessed. 


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