Fragile! Handle with Caution...

I am reminded today of how fragile life is. 11 years ago many of us were mourning the tragic loss of Kasey Overton in a car accident. A year later the loss of my mother knocked my train of it's track for nearly a decade, I think I am just now starting to drive my own train again. As the years have gone by more and more friends lost and buried...I can remember how shocking death seemed when I was a child and teenager, now it only leaves me with a sad aching reminder of how limited our time is here on this Earth and the absolute need to make the most of it. Autumn always brings bittersweet memories to me. Perhaps it's watching the the leaves die and fly away, and the magical way the earth creates it's own little temporary grave for the season.

Leaves crunching under my feet, and the brisk breezes that whip around me this time of year always seem to give me the strange need to take stock of my life, where it is going? What am I doing to better it?  Many of my major life changing events occurred in Autumn. I didn't really realize how many until I started writing this. Engagement...pregnancies...nervous breakdown...divorce...  And here I am today once again preparing for a life changing event, moving. A decision that was hard, scary and exciting.

So as Mother Earth packs up her treasures and tucks them away till Spring, I am packing up my meager belongings (I like meager...Live Simply, Simply Live) to start over once again, with a thankful heart that I have been given another day to enjoy my life and love my loved ones. Hold your loved ones tightly, show your friends they are treasured, and pray for your enemies...life is far too fragile for any less. 

I could name them all, but it would take too long...the list of people on my heart today who I will never wrap my arms around again is long and tragic...