A LOSS and a Hurt

We can have people in our lives and assume as if they will be here forever. Rather long distance or next door to our very home we forget the truth, there is no guarantee of a tomorrow for anyone here on this earth. The evidence of this comes with their absence, we no longer have their presence here.

My friend and Cystic Fibrosis/heart & lung transplant counterpart died last week. All the years of battling disease, multiple transplants and all the massive effort it takes to live with all this, he is gone. Life is here today and gone tomorrow. This shouldn’t come as surprise to any of us here yet it still does, why?

Why wouldn’t we all take each and every God given day and live it to its fullest? Why would we complain when we can walk, talk and enjoy what we have yet we all want more?

My friend Sheldon died in the fight for his life, a good solid man whom cared for others instead of his own battles. He would call me and ask how life’s battles are going while not a mention of his own problems, because he lived knowing. Knowing we all do our best and he cared.

I will miss him, I do miss him. Were we so close with each other, no, but the fact remains that we could had been. Life does what it does and keeps us busy in ways it shouldn’t. Let us each stretch ourselves to get out of life’s selfish groove and see the way we were ment to be, caring & loving others beyond ourselves. My faith in Jesus allows me to look forward in hope. I myself fall short of what I know is right yet my God keeps me for eternity, this is my hope for Sheldon.