Life is Precious

For some reason everything that is so simple, so incredibly elementary, has to keep staring me in the face before I get it. Enjoy every moment, life is precious, God loves me, God will always be there, my family only wants the best for me. How come these uncomplicated things or so hard for me to digest? I have to keep having experiences that make me realize how very true these things are. I have been pondering this because recently my friend was in a car accident and her best friend died because of it. I can not imagine this ever happening to me and I have no clue what my friend is going through. It floored me when I found out because this could happen to anyone. We are here one minute, gone the next. I feel for my friend because this, just like everything else in life, will change her. I think of all the innocence in the world and then something like a death or a terrible experience changes us. The innocence is taken away. Sure we will get back up on our feet, but we will travel down the road of life with a new perspective. I pray that before I die I will be slapped enough times in the face to realize the truth. That life really is precious; a gift from God.