Random. Just...Random.

I don't want to be sad. I don't want to post about how I may have hurt one of my very best friends just by being cranky, she's a soft soul and bruises (emotionally) easily. I don't want to post about my Dad dying 3 years ago this week. Or Patrick dying this time last year. Or Jason dying this time last year. Or brother in law Mike dying last week. Or my Uncle Art dying this past weekend.

I want to post about birthday plans and baseball tournaments, about my fantastic family...about all the wonderful things going on in my life. But I feel obligated to not let this month pass without recognizing each of the people I've mentioned...each of the people I've lost. All of them wonderful people...loving men, who adored their children and whose children adored them. How losing each of them was hard but we hope to see each of them again in Glory. Whole, Healthy and Happy. And though we may miss them, they are no longer suffering. So I leave with this:

24“Anyone who listens to my teaching and follows it is wise, like a person who builds a house on solid rock. 25Though the rain comes in torrents and the floodwaters rise and the winds beat against that house, it won’t collapse because it is built on bedrock. 26But anyone who hears my teaching and doesn’t obey it is foolish, like a person who builds a house on sand. 27When the rains and floods come and the winds beat against that house, it will collapse with a mighty crash.”

To say, God doesn't guarantee the storms won't come...just that he'll see us through them. We stand a chance...through Him.