I don’t plan on using this blog as a personal platform, but I did want to express my sympathy in the loss of a friend. Angie Waller is the President of SAHMA and a good friend. Last weekend she lost her husband in a tragic car accident. My heart goes out to her and her children as they deal with this loss.
It is always hard to lose a loved one, but this close to Thanksgiving and this unexpectedly makes it that much more difficult. When I found out about Rick, it was like a slap on a cold winter morning…it stung. While it was hard for me to hear, I recognize that it is not a loss that I will have to feel everyday or deal with every morning when I wake up. We often feel losses intensenly for a day or two and then, as time marches on and we go about this business called life, we tend to forget. Angie won’t ever be able to forget and her life will never be the same.
I encourage everyone this Thanksgiving season to be consciously mindful of what you have…what you could lose…and maybe even what you have lost and be oh so thankful for the air that you breathe every day. It is a shame that we have to have a day set aside to remind us to be thankful, but life is made up of seconds and minutes that don’t stop ticking no matter how much we yell and scream at the clock.
Today, tonight, tomorrow…look around you slowly and take one of those minutes to just say thanks.