Emotions

I have had an unusually emotional week. I can't really explain why, other than my body is completely out of whack lately. Don't worry...I'm getting it looked into:)
Anywho, I had to stay at school late today (on a FRIDAY) and I have to admit that it was kind of nice being there by myself and getting a few things done. As I was leaving Springfield, I remembered that one of my student's grandmother had passed away on Wednesday, so I pulled in to the Strickland's funeral home just to make an appearance even though I was grossly under dressed. I was so glad I stopped by. I could tell it meant a lot to my student to see someone there "for him". His mother followed me to the parking lot and we ended up talking for a minute. It brought back many memories from my daddy's death. The funeral home was one of the most difficult things for me. As a matter of fact, I didn't stay for very long. I ended up handing out candy to trick-or-treaters at a friends house.

After we ate dinner tonight, Richard and I started watching a show about these two college students that got in a terrible car accident. One of them died and one was in a coma. Their identities were mistaken. For 5 weeks one family sat in the hospital praying and the other family buried and mourned their daughter. Neither suspected anything. Finally, when the poor girl woke up she was able to tell the people her name and communicate that she was not who they thought she was. How traumatic. One family got a miracle and one family was devastated. God works in mysterious ways.

For some reason this made me flash back to the Saturday morning after daddy died. I woke up to hear the lawn mower outside my window. I thought the events of the day before were just a bad dream. In reality, some men from the church were cutting our grass like dad did every Saturday, but for a split second my heart leaped.

I hope and pray that I never take my family and friend for granted. Life is a vapor...here one second and gone the next.