I'm Thankful-

Recently their was a man killed in Meridian, just 20 min away from my home. He was shot once in the head and in the chest by a man in a Walgreens parking lot.Yeah thats sad, But my heart didn't break until I heard more details about him and his family. He was only about 30, leaving behind his beautiful 28 year old wife, his 5 year old twin girls, his 3 year old son, a 20 month old daughter, and a 2 month old baby girl. Last year he just finished law school and passed  the BAR exam just last summer. He was just starting to practice criminal law, and be successful. Words can not describe how this young family is feeling. They were in my sister-in-laws ward.
It made me think more and more about the things I have witnessed 'close to home'.
At the end of last summer a young man I know and his fiancée had their first baby, she was beautiful and life was great. The fiancée / and new mom died (unexpected) in her own home 3 weeks after her baby girl was born, leaving him to take care of a brand new baby all alone.
When I was in high school I was very close friends with a boy names Cole. I was very close to Cole and his family, especially his father. His father unexpectedly passed away in his home when Cole and I were Sophomores in High School, this was very hard on me, but I survived, I can not imagine how hard it was on Cole and his little sister Molly.
Just not even a year later, Ben, another close friend of mine passed away on December 23rd at his home. This was very very unexpected, Ben took his own life. This was very hard to deal with and it seemed so unreal.

We will never know (in this life) why these people had to die so young, and put so many other people through  hard ships. I'm just grateful this has not happened in my family, to my husband.
I think its human nature to question God sometimes, Why was that necessary, Why did I have to go through this, ect. But in the end I can only imagine all the great things we will see, we will see the big picture and understand how everything fell into place.

-Laura