Life is fleeting

I just returned from a funeral a couple of hours ago and there was barely a dry eye in the church.
Jane Hall was 79 years old and a wonderful woman that I am blessed to have known and whose friendship I cherished. I used to work in a nursing home and I got to love and care for many of the elderly people that I was looking after and it was always hard to watch them die. I never got used to it.

I met Jane Hall in church though. We sang in the choir together and she was just a wonderful person who made everyone around her feel loved. She was one of those people who just had tremendous passion for life and treated every day as a gift from God to be cherished and enjoyed to full capacity. She was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in mid February and was given almost a year to live but did not make it that long unfortunately.

Today, I was reminded of how fleeting this life is and how important it is to cherish every day that God blesses us with. Sometimes tragedy occurs and there is nothing we can do but accept that their is a Higher Purpose of it all.

May her legacy live on, and as I mourn her death, I also celebrate her life and I pray this prayer...

"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change
The courage to change the things that I can
and the wisdom to know the difference
Amen"