Please say a prayer......

God are my eyes open today. It’s amazing how quickly we can gain perspective upon receiving bad news. I heard the first of it yesterday, but the worst of it today. A friend, who I have not seen for too long, just delivered her first baby. She is one of the kindest, most nurturing people I have ever known. She also found out that she has an aggressive cancer that has quickly been spreading. They are going to set her up for chemo and radiation, but it doesn’t sound good. The treatment may not help and she is only 28. Wendy is one of those rare inspirational people that bless your life just by knowing her. If there were ever a chance at being a perfect mother or a perfect wife, she is the only one I know close enough to achieving it. I sit here thinking and my heart just breaks for her. She may not have a chance to watch her new daughter grow up or grow old with her husband. And while I think of her I can’t help but think of my own life. How selfish I have been for getting frustrated with my screaming baby, and getting worked up about chores, and being petty about friends. Today I realize how lucky I am to be able to hear Macy screaming and Caden laughing, to have a house that we can make messy, and to have friends to share my life with. I know its cliché, but we never know what may happen and we can’t take a single day for granted. As I heard the first of the news yesterday I stopped and said a prayer for my friend. Through the evening I paused several more times to ask God to help her and her family. I thought about Wendy and the incredible example that she is for everyone around her. I know that as she faces this battle her life is already in order. When I stopped to pray for her I knew that it was the first time in awhile that I had paused to pray. I felt hypocritical going to God in need when I know I don’t look to him as often as I should. Of all the things that life has taken me through I can not seem to escape the belief I have in a higher power. There have been times in my life that I have desperately wanted not to believe or pretended I didn’t. Still, inside of me, my morals remained deeply rooted. How comforted she must be knowing that whatever she has to face now, she has been the person God has intended for her to be. I hope that one day I too can feel that I have been the example she has been to me. Anyone who reads this, whatever your religion or non-religion please say a prayer or whatever it is you do for my friend, her new baby, and her family.