Parent's Panic

Sometimes others having a braking moment can cause you to do the same.  This week had a prime example.  My daughter had played softball with the same core group of girls now for 6 plus years. We have sat through the same tortuous practices and games.  One of  the girls' parents are teachers, so a lot of people in the community know them and respect them.  This week they received one of those calls that no one ever wants to receive.  Their oldest daughter.  had been in a car wreck on the way to school.  In the day of instant knowledge, word speead pretty quickly.  The buzz was she had been in a head on collision and had airlifted.  When you hear something like this you automatically assume the worst possible scenario.  Your heart goes out to the family, and you prey for a quick recovery.  Then you put the brakes on your own merry go around and take inventory of your own life.  Then the what ifs creep in, and you do your best to shove them away.  You put yourself in a similar scenario.  It's incidents like these that give you strength and preserveirence to face the next hurdle.  Unfortunately life is not a linear journey from A to B.  It's the turning points along the way that build character.  The benefit of being an observer to something like this is you get the chance to slow your own pace down, without dealing first hand with the pain and suffering.  You can offer supporter because it's the right thing to do, but it's not the same.

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