Tough Days

Not really education related.....Yesterday was a tough day.  I lost 2 friends to cancer.  I woke up early to text messages alerting me to the fact that one of the teachers that I work with had passed away.  She found out that she had Leukemia right before Fall Break this past school year.  She has 3 children that I am heartbroken for.  Her students loved her.  She fought hard these past few months and we were all hopeful that she would make it through this.  I was thinking back to a Bible study that I went through several years ago.  God lets us go through struggles in this life and he will deliver His children.  I know that she has been perfectly healed.  Just not in the way that we would want on this earth.  I have to trust in God's plans as I pray for her family and friends at this time.

     As I was looking through FB yesterday evening, I noticed a post to my other friend who has been battling breast cancer.  She was diagnosed around the same time that my mother had been diagnosed with endometrial cancer.  We had talked back and forth about the situations.  We had also been praying for each other.  While my mom has been found to be cancer free (Praise to God!) Kelly was still battling through.  She had gone for some more treatments so I was following her treatments through FB.  I saw a pic the other day and knew that she looked like she was having a rough time.  I was so sad to read that she had passed away around 4pm.  Ugh, not again.  I could do nothing but write her a message that she will never get to read and say goodbye.  I began to pray for both families.

    As I reflect on yesterday, I am reminded that no one knows how long we will be on this earth.  My pastor said that you must be ready to die in order to live.  Do you know Jesus?  Have you been reconciled to God through Jesus?  Please be ready!  Thanks for listening.  Sometimes you just need to talk it through.