Perspective

It looks like I'm batting about one blog entry every four years....I guess I don't have all that much to say. Anyway, there is nothing like a little perspective to create pause in life. I am sitting in the ER tonight with my youngest child. I came home and she walked into the room in excruciating pain (abdominal). My children don't typically complain about things like this, so I was worried after asking basic diagnostic questions. Add to the mix the news that a coworker just passed away. Events like these make one think about what is really important. I feel like I have a fair handle on things like this, but even so, it is difficult to escape the effects of mortality and facing our own humanity.

Such are my thoughts tonight as I sit with this 14 year old of mine. I was thinking yesterday of each of my children when they ranged in ages between 3 and 8 years old. Where has the time gone? I sit on the cusp of being a grandfather in November! How could this be? Just yesterday I was sitting in my wife's hospital room where she gave birth to one of my daughters. My wife was as young as my daughter in law! Still, I do not wish to go backward in time. 

My needs and desires become more simple with each passing year. Ultimately I desire peace. Nothing more or less. Most of all, I desire the health and happiness of my children. At the end of the day, it is enough.