This is one of my favorite pictures of Josiah and Sevrin...taken during our short stint in Colorado. I was thinking as I was looking through pictures of my family that I often find myself surprised by my life. I am surprised that I am where I am, I am surprised by my good fortune, surprised to have five healthy children and to not have experienced the loss of a child or spouse. Yet, I am not and have never taken for granted this moment...these moments. Of course hearing of an old friend losing her husband, another friend's cancer or reading about a mother losing her husband and four children in a fire make all of us hold our dear ones closer. To me though...and maybe it is a human experience...I always feel that shadow lurking close by. So right now, I remind myself that right now is perfect. And that is enough.
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Right Now
This is one of my favorite pictures of Josiah and Sevrin...taken during our short stint in Colorado. I was thinking as I was looking through pictures of my family that I often find myself surprised by my life. I am surprised that I am where I am, I am surprised by my good fortune, surprised to have five healthy children and to not have experienced the loss of a child or spouse. Yet, I am not and have never taken for granted this moment...these moments. Of course hearing of an old friend losing her husband, another friend's cancer or reading about a mother losing her husband and four children in a fire make all of us hold our dear ones closer. To me though...and maybe it is a human experience...I always feel that shadow lurking close by. So right now, I remind myself that right now is perfect. And that is enough.
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