" The Unexpected "

It's hard to believe I have not blogged in over a week.. I have had alot going on ~~~ Some pleasant, some not so pleasant... It is amazing how we never know how one day to the next how it will turn out --- some days can throw you for a loop, catch you so totally unaware, that it fines you at a loss... that is how my week turned out.. It started with an awesome 2 day visit with my mother-in-law and sister-in-law.. only to receive a phone call that my dearest friend had lost her husband to a horrible accident... " The Unexpected...."  Me, who always fines words to say - found myself at a loss..... Trying to mustard up the right words  begging God for something to help her find some kind of meaning to this horrible thing she was just faced with... We are never quiet prepared with for the unexpected.... Hearing her painful words " what do I do now?" Those words sounds like what I kept asking after mom died, but I can't image how much harder those words are for her.... they were bonded in marriage, the most intimate relationship you can have on this earth... She spent 24 years of her life in commitment to him.. She has always made sure he was taken care of - she loved him through the good, the bad and the ugly - her life was his completely ....Now she is faced with what or how does she go on.... Because the unexpected has happened in her life....As I try to make sense of why we are faced with so many unexpect things in our lives --- I find I have only one answer. It is to always make sure God is the solid root of our foundation, so when we are faced with the unexpected, we will know He is the center of it all.... and we will not walk it alone...2 Corinthians 4:17 " For our present troubles are small and will not last very long, they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever.."  He will give us the strength to face each unexpected event even we do not realize it... because one day we will be able to look back and say without Him, I would have never gone through this safely and been able to move on continuing to live... we may not always understand why we face unexpected events in our lives ~~ they may even hit us to our very core,  but we can have the assurance He will never allow His children to walk it alone...you learn in those times he carried us when we couldn't carry ourselves... He is our strength when we can't be strong... He is our reasoning when nothing else makes sense... He gives us grace to move forward even when we feel we can't.... He gives us new meaning through His mercy.... One day we will be all knowing and totally understand all  the reasonings of ~~~"The Unexpected"....~~~