Life is Precious

Today Ginger, Michelle, Sarah, Sami, Oliver’s life changed forever. Last night they recieved the news that the plane that carried Luke, Nate, Nick & Noah was found with no survivors.

Their live changed in an instant. 

I don’t understand it and it leaves me with more questions than answers when it comes to god. 

A very good friend of mine stopped by my house last Tuesday when I called her with the news. Here is the conversation I continue to play over and over in my head.

“Is there really a god?  Then why and the hell do bad things happen to good people….” me.

“I don’t know. It’s the 54M dollar question. Not sure any of us will really know.” my wise friend Jenny.

“That doesn’t help.” me

“Everyone wants the answer to the big question in times like these….and when they don’t get it, they want the answer to all the little questions….it’s just natural.” my really wise friend Jenny.

Big sigh…“That makes sense…” me.

Today, when the time between seconds seem to turn into hours, I have a lot of little questions I want answered.  And each time, I stop and remember what my friend Jenny said, I take a deep breath, and let go wanting answers to the little things. And when I do the space between the seconds seems to return to normal for a while. 

I’ve repeated that process a lot today.  Because life really is precious.