Last year, Grandma Ruley gave us a magnet that read, "Be Patient, God isn't finished with me yet." I wrote about it in a previous blog. This magnet is on my fridge and I read it everyday when I'm getting anything out of the fridge. Today was the first day I read it and became a little angry.
Be patient? I have to admit as a spiritual person, I'm angry and impatient. I don't understand and I cannot ever comprehend what has transpired over the course of the last 7 months in my life. I will continue to pray for comfort, understanding, and peace with all that has happened. There has been good, but the bad definitely has overshadowed it all. I just said to a friend last week, jokingly, it can't get worse. Well, yes it can. How can we be so unlucky? But then, I Jekel and Hyde.....
On the flip side, through everything has come stronger bonds with many family members, closer friendships with many of our friends, and the knowledge of knowing that you cannot control your destiny. We are not invincible. Grandma Ruley's words, "faith, family, friends, and don't forget to laugh" often come to mind in my daily life. I'm surrounded in my house by relics of all of my family that has now passed. Simple things remind me that we are only small in this world and that we take nothing with us when we go.
I will say it again, as I have said before, life is unpredictable. Just when you think you know, you don't. Cherish every moment. Even the moments when people around you drive you crazy. You never know what tomorrow holds.
