While watching my daily dose of Oprah and Dr. Phil, there were several guests on Oprah that had had terrible tragedies thrust upon them. One family in particular really stuck in my mind.
They were an African American family from South Carolina. Nothing too out of the ordinary. Pretty much typical. A mom, her two daughters, and her two daughters sons, making a total of 7 people under one roof. There was a fight, and one of the daughters got a little crazy and took her two sons and left. She later checked into a hotel, strangled and suffocated her two sons, and then drove her car into the river, where her already lifeless sons were found dead.
Scary. i know. but i really don't have any idea why that stuck with me...or why I'm writing about it now...but..here goes..
we've all snapped. we've all had bad days. but can you imagine?! all i can do is look at that woman and think, how selfish of you?! okay YOU were having a bad day, YOU weren't happy with YOUR life, YOU were pissed at what YOUR family was saying about YOU. so why end your beautiful, harmless, defenseless sons lives when YOU are the one who isn't happy? why did you get to decide when your sons lives were over? the only person who has that can do that, is God. you stole precious life away from your boys.
clearly i don't know this woman. but that doesn't matter. i know enough about her that makes my heart hurt for her. my heart aches for her pain and suffering as now she has to live with the fact that she's murdered her two babies. when things like this happen, it just makes me SO grateful for the family i do have. and even though we fight, I've never once feared for my life or been scared to come home.
the Lord has blessed me with some of the best things in the world. what is better than having an amazing family? they are my rock and my core. they know me and more importantly love me for exactly the way i am. they know my faults, and they don't judge me. I've taken them for granted for a long time, and that has ended.
every second counts, and what matters in life isn't what you did in those seconds, it's who you spent it with that's more important.
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