This morning on the way to Abby’s school drop off we had a bit of a shocking experience.  We drove about a mile out of our way to detour around the three lanes that were blocked (the entire northbound side of a 3 lane road).  The police had flares all over the road and many cars were routing elsewhere with a lot of confusion.  Abby was worried she’d be late.  She wouldn’t be my daughter if she didn’t worry about things that were not important 🙂

After dropping Abby off we headed south on the very same road we had to route around.  It turns out that we were not too far behind an accident where a woman was hit by a van.  She was crossing outside of the crosswalk wearing dark clothes.  The driver didn’t see her.  While the woman died the surviving driver will be impacted for days and weeks with great emotional trauma and months and years with emotional trauma.  It was a bit of a shocker as death often is, but it made me think about the families impacted by this massive change to two lives.

This Christmas – aside from thanking God for sending His son – take a moment to love your family.  Take a LOT of moments.  As of now there’s no time traveling so we can’t go backwards and make up for lost time.  My hope and prayers are that the folks who are reading this (and everyone else) would not go through such a huge event, but be grateful for the time you have – tell someone you love them one extra time today.