I was reading The Pioneer Woman, as I am prone to doing, and she mentioned a blog she liked. So I had to check it out. It was fantastic and sad. http://www.fatcyclist.com/ This guys wife has been fighting cancer for a couple years and he talks about in his blog that they discovered she has brain cancer. They'd gone in for some tests and suddenly find out she has only months to live. He said hearing that and having to tell his children was the worst day of his life.
And I wondered, what was MY worst day? And I couldn't think of it. I haven't had a worst day of my life. I've had rotten days and horrible ones, but not a worst day. I know in high school I thought I had worst days. Finding out that so-and-so didn't like me really doesn't count as a worst day; and finding out that a jerk of a soon-to-be ex has betrayed you and screwed you royally is tough, but not a worst day. And since I can't actually recall these events with clarity, I am sure they are not even in the running for a worst day.
I had a brief worst moment, when they told me Delaney was being helicoptored to the Children's Hospital right after she was born. But she'd just been born and it all worked out okay, so the terrifying thoughts and feelings of that moment are now just a shadow among all the other great things about her birth.
I feel so lucky that I have no worst day. I feel so blessed to have all my family happy healthy and well. I am also blessed to know that if they were not, there is still hope. I don't know how I would handle such adversity, and I like to think that I would be brave and spiritual and all that. And I'd like to think that my testimony would carry me through. I am glad to know also that I have so many great friends who would be with me too.
And this is getting depressing. That's not where I meant to go. I just was surprised that I have no worst day ever. And I am amazed that for one guy, his life as he knew it has changed completely, and yet, mine continues along unchanged and indifferent to his. I suppose that now I need to go out and live life to the fullest and seize the day.
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2 comments:
I agree! I have had a worst day, so far in my life (aside from just typing 'fart' instead of far....)It was the day we found out that our oldest, Seth, had died. He was born the next day. That had to be the worst, yet with the gospel of Jesus Christ, I've gotten through it and I am better for it, I think....
ps-how do you get the ratings on your blog? That is cool.
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