Per the request of several of my avid blog readers, okay, like, my ONLY readers, here I am, updating. Sorry I haven't been keeping up lately, but I've become quite the busy tee-ball Mom, and lots of other things going on as well. For those that have asked about me, I'm quite okay, doing better than ever, actually. I won't go into details here, but maybe I'll share what's new in a private conversation if you so inquire. Really, if I satand here and updated about everything that has happened between the last time I updated and now, I'd be here all day, and you'd probably get bored. I know I need to start updating more often though, so that when I DO update, I won't have to pick and choose what to write about.
I did receive a piece of sad news yesterday. My great-uncle's son's (2nd cousin, I think?) wife, Rebecca, died Saturday of leukemia. She was only 31, and they didn't even KNOW until a couple weeks ago that she even HAD leukemia. Last winter she got sick quite often, like colds, etc., and never could seem to get well with antibiotics, and she apparently took a turn for the worst, they rushed her to the hospital, all to find out she was in the final stages of leukemia. They tried chemo and were going to do a bone marrow transplant, but it was too late, she developed pneumonia, and passed away Saturday. I got to thinking back to the time I first met her...back in 1992 when my Great-grandmother passed away. I think she and my 2nd cousin had just gotten married. I was only 12, which meant she was 18. She's only 6 years older than me, and NOW that seems like hardly nothing at all, but there is a HUGE age difference between 12 and 18. She just seemed SO MUCH OLDER than me. It's kind of weird to think about. They later had a baby and named her after my Great-Grandmother, Molly. So that means Molly is probably now maybe 11 or 12-ish? And then they have another daughter younger than that. What I'm trying to get out here is NO ONE knows when their last day to live will be. Life is SO fragile and SO uncertain. The day before Mother's Day, my church had a Mother-Daughter banquet, which I didn't get to attend because I was attending the Mother-Daughter banquet with my Mother-in-law at HER church. Anyway, the lady that was asked to give the devotional at MY church that day, had a massive stroke while speaking, and 4 days later, she died. It was totally unexpected, she was overall in pretty good health for her age, and just like that, massive stroke, in a coma, and then gone. We all make the mistake of assuming we'll live to see our grandchildren, even great-grandchildren, but only God knows how many days we have left. It is scary to think about, BUT the most important thing is knowing if you are ready to die. If you were to die suddenly, without little or no warning, where would you spend eternity? I pray that I have many more days on this earth to be used in His service, and to see my kids grow up, get married, have kids of their own, etc., etc., BUT if God sees fit to take me home before that, I know I'm ready. Are you?
