Unfair!

I haven't posted in awhile, huh? I have a few in progress with fun fall photos and all but haven't quite got them completed. I don't know that I like that this next post of mine, especially since it's been awhile since my last post, but I'm in a "LIFE'S UNFAIR" funk right now.

I realize that we all suffer from things that make us feel life isn't fair sometimes. It could be an illness, a situation, a disorder or just those everyday hurdles that can make us feel like we are drowning in the sea of unfairness. Being involved in St. Jude I get weekly updates that remind me that life isn't always fair.

Lately on Facebook there have been pages for children battling diseases when they should be out riding bikes, or sitting and playing with toys. Another reminder that life isn't fair.

Tonight after work I went to a visitation for a man who was barely 48 years old. A man whom has 3 children and a wife whom he married in 1985. A man who farmed and was loved by many. A man who was a kid at heart and do anything for anyone. I babysat his children and he and his wife have been good friends with my parents for many years. He came home from harvesting on Sunday, took a nap and never woke up.

Unfair!

These situations make me so grateful for healthy kids and cherish our family times together. They are screaming at me saying "Hey! It doesn't matter if you are 3, 7, 22, 54, 98 or 48 time is not something you are guaranteed! Health is not something you are guaranteed!" And we aren't. I don't know if we are guaranteed anything?

I do know that we have choices. We can choose to feel the pain and deal with the pain in these unfair moments. We can choose to remember the good and take peace in the joy. We can choose to cherish the moments we have with our loved ones and not take them for granted. When we are running late and feel like we are hitting every light and getting stuck behind every slow driver we can choose to slow down and enjoy the ride.

We have the ability to make the choice to live life to the fullest. We have the ability to choose what is important to us. While I think even all of that ability to choose we will still feel and see those unfair moments in life we can choose to recognize that sometimes life is unfair. Although I believe that God has a plan for all of us and I try my best to always have faith in that plan, sometimes I just feel life isn't fair.