Life has no rules really. I’ve learned that over the years, but now that I’m entering into the heart of life . . . getting deep into it. . . I’m learning it even more. Marriages get weak and begin cracking at the center. It’s all around us it seems. . . friends everywhere we turn.  Good people.  People who we care about and share our lives with.

And death happens  in the blink of an eye–no warning and no time to prepare. Gunshot violence . . . bodies failing . . . accidents. Good people. People we know. People who crossed our paths and left an impression somewhere.  Children, and young adults and those who were robbed of a full life.

There are no rules. Nothing you can follow to keep tragic things from happening. We pray, we hope, we put our faith whatever it is we put our faith in–whether that’s God or something else. But things still happen. So today, in the here and now, continue to love, to hope and to believe that life is a gift, that love is a journey and that hope is what will keep us going.