While surfing other blogs this morning, I came across a story that literally broke my heart and sent every single thing in my life spinning back into perspective.
I found a blog dedicated to a woman named Leslie Joy Evans whose twins died after she gave birth to them at only 21 weeks. Leslie was able to meet both babies (though the first was stillborn), but shortly afterwards she went into cardiac arrest (heart attack). She was revived, but passed away on October 7th. Her husband's first wife died of breast cancer three years ago, and he has three young children from that marriage. I can't even begin to grasp the magnitude of his pain.
Leslie was incredibly beautiful, incredibly loved, a talented singer, a wonderful mother to her husband's children, and just wanted to experience pregnancy and raising a baby of her own. And yet God took her. I simply cannot understand the reasons why - why anyone should have to experience what her husband, family, and friends must be going through right now. But I know that if nothing like this ever happened, we would all continue to plunge deeper into the depths of our self-centeredness, self-pity, and preoccupation with me and my problems and my feelings. Talk about putting things into perspective.
What RIGHT do we have to be anything but joyful?? What right do we have to give anything but thanks??
Do you have your health (i.e. are you not dead yet)?
Do you have each other?
Do you have the hope that in the next moments, in the next hours, in the next days, you can make a better life for yourself, reconcile with someone you hurt, say "I love you" to someone who may have forgotten?
Then you have everything you could need.
I don't know why Leslie had to die, but let's not let it be in vain. Her life was a testament, her death is a lesson for us all.
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