That's what people do...

All around me I see people. Beautiful, wonderful, broken, fantastic, humans. Newlyweds, they make me smile, and my heart aches with love and pride for them. My friends. They sincerely make me appreciate marriage, and make me intensely glad that my first year of marriage is behind me. New parents, anxiously awaiting their precious baby to come earth side. When you look at that mother you can see that glorious, magnificent, glow, of a woman carrying the person she loves most in the world. She is beautiful and it radiates to everything. I see another Mother, one who baby is gone. My heart breaks for her, and some nights I cry for her. Because, with things like this, I will always be more sensitive than I like to admit. Somewhere out there in the dark a woman I know sits up late watching her daughter sleep and wonders "Why us?"I pray for them both because in this situation we are all powerless. We can fight against what has happened, but none can change it. I think about this child and pray "God, please, don't let her turn out like I did." Somewhere tonight a STRONG woman and her family fight through another day of knowing that she has cancer.  But she will be ok, I can feel it. Someday, she will talk about it. She will give a voice to it and awe others with her bravery and faith. At least, that's how I imagine it. Secretly, I'm an optimist. I look around me and I know, that I am nothing special. But for some reason, one that I may never understand, God has blessed me. I've got a wonderful family, all of who are in good health. An amazing husband, who loves me. Though that I will never understand. All of these people are a blessing to me in some way. Some I know well, some I talked to briefly. To some I am merely an acquaintance. However they are connected to me, I am THANKFUL for all of them. As well as some of the other amazing people I didn't get a chance to name. We will never be perfect, but despite the bad, it's people and stories like these, that give me hope...