Reality Check

Nothing like a dose of reality to set you back a few feet.

Today I found out that one of my mother's students has cancer. Well, I didn't really find it out today. I've known it. But for some reason it didn't hit me until today. She's on an extended field trip my mother is chaperoning this week, and she came down with a 103 degree fever. They're taking her to the hospital. I wondered why her parents let her go, but my mom replied, "Hon, when you're at the end of the rope like this, you begin to let go so they can experience things they never have and be with the friends they love."

I lost it. I don't know the girl, but I cried. I cried for a little fourteen-year-old, not a girl and not yet a woman, whose life is dwindling away. I cried because, though I know God is Sovereign, it doesn't take away the sad and questioning thoughts in my mind.

Reality hit.

I'm twenty-seven and preparing to go to a foreign country to live. Sometimes I forget how blessed I am.