Yesterday, was my birthday. My 8 year old quarantined me to my bedroom while she hung homemade banners and made me a cup of coffee. She knows my heart well! While drinking my birthday coffee, she handed me an envelope.
I will keep it’s contents forever. Such wisdom and love in an 8 year old. She gets it! Her relationship with Jesus is real and intimate!
Get ready world, here she comes!
Quiet, a pause in the deserted city. The tactical team moves in. Camo, gear, guns, training, this is the moment. Footsteps are the only sound, turning, checking, on a mission. Without even happening, it just is. A man down.
Thousands, millions, billions of cars line the earth. Driving the rough terrain, jammed in traffic, moving moving. A daily occurrence that causes no thought. Driving to work, carpooling to middle school, departing on date night, late to a meeting, speeding to the hospital, just a Sunday drive with nothing else to do. Of course you did not know. You never would have left the house. And then it is all over. Life is over.
A bustling Tuesday morning. Coffee is brewing, a quick granola bar for breakfast, make a school lunch, leave the beds unmade. The morning is rushed. Grab a diaper bag and grab the baby. And then that life is over. A breathless baby, gone in the night, leaving desperation, panic, anger, and a life unlived.
Everyone always thinks it will be easy to go in old age. Life is lived and the time has surly come. They had been together through four babies, seven houses, three wars, forgiveness, choosing each other time and time again, and memories of 72 years. She didn’t expect for him to go. They had been together this long, surly it would never end.
Billions have come and gone and somehow we still believe that it will never be me.
What if I fell in love? If he was hot and melted my heart and he asked me on a date. What if I discovered he noticed me, what if he liked me, and called me back? What if that guy was kind, and laughed when he watched funny movies when he was the only one in the room, if he rubbed my shoulders when he watched car shows, and if he offered to take me shopping? What if we got married? What if LOVE was REAL?
What if I had a baby? I would love that little stinker just for being born! What if I had a daughter? What if her first word was “Momma?” What if she loved school, and loved every single animal in the whole world, and collected more stuffys than I ever wanted in my house? What if we got to play board games together? What if I could wait in carline and pick her up from school? What if a beautiful little girl called me “MOMMY”?
What if I was a writer? What if I was brave enough to share? What if I met thousands and thousands of friends over the blogosphere? What if the number kept growing? What if I published a book? What if I got to sit in my living room, beside a fire, petting my doggy, drinking coffee, and writing on my new iPad? What if I called myself a poet? What if people LIKED what I wrote?
Well, THAT would be REALLY COOL!
&
nbsp;
I AM PULBISHED! please click on the link below for more information or you can find my two books, Spiritual Flesh and Blood and Beautiful Life with Cancer, Hope During the Hard Times on Amazon (Kindle edition available)
https://www.createspace.com/5108444
Beautiful Life with Cancer 
You must be logged in to post a comment.