life...is...short...

I am here now to write a little something. life is short, life is something we need to embrace. friday i was woken up by a phone call to inform me of a formor pastors granddaughter being shot and killed in the niu shootings. ryanne mace was the granddaughter of rev. miley palmer who served at my home church until his retirement in 1998. he has filled in a few weekends, and i have chatted with him since my coming to lincoln christian college.
how does life mean nothing one day and the next we do not even have the life we took for granted. i do not understand the whole death and dying more so in a young child or young person. so much to live for cut short. all because someone decided one day to go in start shooting and then leave images in the minds of everyone else.
over the weekend six high school students were in a car accident outside of lincoln. four passed away, and two will go on wondering why, and have emotional scars that no one can heal. life is a gift and i am not sure about any of you but io have taken it for granted.
my dad was killed when i was two years old. his borthday would have been today...the 18th...the hardest thing i will have to do is go to his burial site to say "happy birthday dad." i do not get to sing, i do not get to pick out a dad card, and i do not get to hug him. i know my dad loves me, and i know that he is is heaven looking down and many times rolling his eyes. most of all i know that my dad was and still is very proud of me.
my challenge to whoever reads this is to take your life, look at it, and make sure you are doing what you want to do, and make sure you are seeing what you do that needs to change. however most of all mkae sure you are telling the ones you love that you love them, call your parents, call your grandparents, and the brothers and sisters that drive you crazy.
if you are a parent take your kids, read to them, sit and play, pray with them, most of all make sure your kids know that you love them, and you will be there at anytime...if you are a child that cant stand your parents because they have rules, and make you do your homework....embrace it because at any moment they could be taken. trust me....my dad went to work, and i never seen him agian, and at two i was daddys little girl...what two year old isnt?
so friends and family i love you, and i pray that you read this and it hits you, and you make the call you need to make. tomorrow is not promised and in this world today people forget that, and when they remember it is too late.