Some sad news...

Life has been interesting lately but like I always seem to say then it wouldn't be life...would it? You have to take the good with the bad in order to grow even when it isn't understood why things are the way they are or when they go the way you don't want them to.

When I first moved here I had friends who would ask me if there were things that I would've changed and the answer to them would sometimes be yes but I always said, no regrets. For everything that I've gone through and been faced with in my life has made me the person I am today. I moved away from home a little more than a year and a half ago by myself. I'm still learning everyday and making many mistakes along the way but that's ok. I feel that life is too short to dwell on things. I try to let things go when I can. It sometimes takes me a little bit of time and I'm not always as successful as I'd like to be but you never know when something will happen. A lot of times it's when you least expect it, especially to the ones you love. You never know how much time you have. Which brings me to my sad news...

Everyday I wear a yellow LIVESTRONG band. Originally I started wearing this band because one of my roommates friends was diagnosed with cancer. As time went on I started wearing it for all the people I had lost too, an Auntie and an Uncle who had passed away a few years ago. Then I found out my friends father-in-law has Hodgkins Lymphoma. One of my Uncles in Hawai'i went to the doctor not to long ago and told my dad (I think) that he had a clean bill of health. But out of the blue and to everyone COMPLETE surprise, he was just diagnosed with cancer. I'm not sure what type of cancer but my mom's thinking it's some type of lung cancer and she said he wasn't given long to live. This was very sad to hear that another family member will be going through this. My Auntie died many years ago and I remembered her funeral, I myself was a child then. There kids (my cousins) are sad about this news as you can expect. Please keep them in your prayers.

Another sad and unexpected call I got this morning was from another friend right after church. My friends boyfriend had blacked out at the movies last night and fell backwards. He cracked his skull open from the back all the way to his jaw and is now in the ICU. I'm sure he's in the best hospital in Seattle to be treated. This morning he was lucid and could carry a conversation but I don't know the extent of the damage. Please keep him in your prayers as well.

I can do everything through Him who gives me strenghth.
-Philippians 4:13