Reacting to some bad news, my oldest son, who is wise beyond his years, said “I don’t know why life does this.”
I paused for a minute, not really being able to give him a good answer because honestly, I don’t know either. I just said, “It’s just life. You have to seize the blessings that much harder to survive stuff like this.”
It’s a trite answer but the best I could come up with in a pinch. Life sends storms. If the storm hits you, you hang on. If it hits someone else, you don’t make it about yourself. You help them.
This Thanksgiving, I have so much to be thankful for. And I’m going to seize every blessing I have.