Life is funny that way...

Just when you think you have things figured out -- when you think your life is cruising along nicely, everything in place, everyone present and accounted for -- something punches you hard in the stomach and you find out you were never in control at all.

We visited a new church on Sunday. At the end of the service, the pastor called for people to gather around a young woman named Kate and pray for her. Three and a half months pregnant, she just found out she has Leukemia for the second time. It's aggressive. And she is not willing to abort her baby in order to undergo the treatment to fight it. 

I don't know Kate personally. But she looks like she is about 25 years old to me. Her countenance radiates the presence of God, so it's sort of hard to tell exactly how old she is. She is in a different place, on a different plane, perhaps, from where I am standing. Overwhelmed and premenopausal, surrounded by children, carpools, pets, and laundry, I think I can safely say that I have lost sight of the really important things in life. Things like integrity, devotion, and sacrifice. I daresay, most Americans have lost sight of these things. We're stumbling along, blind and depressed, hoping there is more to life than the mundane daily grind we're all experiencing. I think Kate knows about the "more." She's living each day totally dependent on the power of God to give her life, breath, and strength to grow a baby for the next six months. She doesn't even know if she will be able to hold out for that long. Her sacrifice may be all for nothing. Think about it. She is laying down her life for the sake of her child. We all say we would do that. But would we? Really? Even before we have a chance to know that child?

I am humbled.

Yours -- with every breath I breathe,

Megan