LIFE...

In the past 4 hours I have been saddened with the news of a 3 yr old's death from a small town in North Dakota as well as hearing that my cousin and his wife are now not excepting the arrival of their second child. As thrilling life can be and filled with happiness, smiles and laughter and can also deliever blows that knock the wind out of you and provide you with endless tears and pain. I know that life runs its own course. This journey that we are all on provides meaning, knowledge and reason that we will never truly understand until this time of this earth is done. I will never begin to understand why some lives go on forever and others are cut short or never even begun. I will never comprehend the pain and suffering a parent has to go thru with a loss of a child. It is never right in my mind that a child goes before the parent. Yet what we think is right or wrong truly has no say in the matter of life. It runs its own course and we are all just blessed to take part in it no matter how long or short that may be. No matter how much joy, laughter, smiles and happiness it may bring into our lives or how much pain, sorrow and tears may come as well. All i know is that you are not able to truly understand the meaning of happiness until you have expereinced your share of sorrow. You will not know the value of laughter until you have felt a heart aching pain. You will not know the measure of a smile until you have cried. You will not know the beauty of a dream until you have failed. Life is full of twists, turns, ups and downs. You climb and you coast. You fight to hold on and fight to let go. In the end life is never to be understood...just lived...to the depths of our souls with the full understand that this is just the tip of the iceberg....It will all come full circle one day.