grateful

feeling overwhelmingly grateful.

after seeing and hearing about the tragic murders on Virginia Tech's campus and imagining how horrific and scary that must have been for all involved - the victims, the friends and families of victims - i thank God for my life. that could have been me. that could have been you. just a few short years ago, i was a student on a campus an hour or so from Tech. we were young, carefree, dragging ourselves to class each morning. we never would have imagined a classroom would have been the last place we ever saw. it doesn't seem reasonable, logical, imaginable that one could die sitting in a German class on an average morning.

i complain a lot about what my life is missing. but man, am i blessed to HAVE my life. all of my family and those i hold dear are alive and healthy. i've never really experienced the pain of the death of a loved one (except when my uncle died years ago...that saddened me a lot, but i was pretty young). i'm alive, i'm healthy, i'm well. my heart bleeds and grieves for those who died and those who are left to grieve the loss of their loved ones. those were someone's sons, daughters, teachers, friends. it breaks my heart :-(.

may God bless their families and give them His indescribeable peace.

thank you, Lord, for my life.