As many great blogs as there are out there there are only a few that I read regularly because of time. One of them has been anything but a pleasure read, its about a little boy named Harley who has leukemia (CodiDornan) . His Mom has been keeping a diary of his progress and it is absolutely heartwrenching. Every time I read it I get sad and say I won’t read anymore but I always do. I continue reading because it’s life and it’s real and this family is going through every parents worst nightmare.
Being a Mom I absolutely cannot imagine what that must be like.
Tonight’s entry revealed that Harley died last week. How this Mom is getting through it is beyond me. I don’t know her or her family I only found out about her situation through one of my friends on Facebook writing a comment on her group wall. I followed the comment and read up on their story and it just broke my heart. The Mom is only 25 years old and has been going through this for most of her sons life (he turned 3 a little while ago). She did have another son since, thankfully, but this is just so devastating.
So the question is how do you say thank you for what you have. How can I ever express my gratitude for the goodness I have in my life. When such terrible things are happening to children – preventable and unpreventable – how do we reason or explain these things? I don’t think you can. The only thing I can do is to think of these awful circumstances that people endure and try to create some good from it in my own life. Live a more meaningful life, spend better time with my daughter, husband and family. Take better care of myself and do more meaningful things that bring something to my life.
Anyway, tonight is a melancholy entry, the next one will be a little lighter.
MATC
