It's the right time...

to make certain that your loved ones hear from you that you love them. to enjoy the moment. to live life to the fullest. to spend as much time as you can at the feet of Jesus. it's just time.

I found a link to this blog on my friend Megan's blog. This is real life. This is why we all need to remember - it's time.

We just don't know what our future holds. I am positive that while God wasn't caught off-guard in this situation, this family was, but He is still there. Loving and protecting and guiding. His Love will never fail. He is always there - even in the loneliest moments - He is there.

I have been praying for Val. and her sweet babies. and her future. and her destiny. and I pray that even in the midst of this pain she can praise God and thank Him for the life she is living.

and I have to be even more thankful for my beautiful girls, and for my husband, who is a really good man. I almost lost him a couple of years ago - I'll save that story for a future post, but I am so very thankful for the miracle that saved his life. I cannot even imagine what I would have done if we'd lost him.

I am so sad for Val. so very sad. and know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that every day I have to be thankful for another day with the ones I love. I don't know Val, but I know the pain of losing a loved one. I am so very sorry for her loss.

love your family, your children, your spouse. be thankful for every day. remember Val in your prayers. remember she is a wife, mother, sister, daughter, friend, widow.

and, but for the grace of God, it could be any one of us.

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It's all about choices...

Several years ago, the Lord spoke to me about the choices we all make. I often said to our girls before they left the house to "make good choices". Everyday I am confronted with opportunities to make choices. We all are... from the mundane to life changing. The hardest thing to remember is that EVERY choice is a life or death choice... it's true, they are. Every choice I make is a step toward life and health, or death and destruction. From choosing salad over fries, to driving 70 instead of my favorite, 82. The outfit I wear over another, the way I spend my money, the words I use and the ones I choose to bite back - they are all choices. And they all have an impact on not only me, but everyone around me and even some I don't know.

I have to CHOOSE every day to try to make better choices. Just as I reminded my girls, I have to remind myself to make good choices. Life choices. Choices that will enhance, improve and benefit my life. I choose today, to give thought and consideration to my choices as much as I possibly can. Lord, help me.