Life's Too Short

The other day, a family in my church suffered a terrible loss in their family. I am not really close to the family myself, but my sister is best friends with one of their daughters. The girl's father passed away on Saturday due to a freak four-wheeler accident that happened that morning. What was so horrible (I can't imagine how it was for them) was that he was perfectly healthy up to that morning, but in the blink of an eye he was in the hospital, and several hours later (that very day) he passed. This made me think about how short life is and how we are never promised a "full life". It's hard to say that "it's all in God hands", (even though I know it is) and I know it'd be especially hard if I was in their situation. Even in this hard time, my sister's friend (the daughter of the man who passed) was telling the rest of her family that "it is in God's hands". I really respected her in saying this, this girl is several years younger than me and she was wiser than most grown men and women in that type situation. Needless to say, it makes you grateful for what you have every day. We constantly overlook (and take for granted) what we have been blessed with, so we need to live each day as if it was our last.