When tragedy strikes,
it doesn’t seem fair
that the world keeps spinning.
You look at all the cars
speeding this way and that,
wishing you were in a
different vehicle,
wishing you were like
the other drivers,
seemingly oblivious
to pain and worry.
I understand it’s hard to see
much beauty at all
when your world’s been
turned upside down.
January has brought me
many reminders of this,
from the death of a friend
to the failing health of loved ones,
to a heartbreaking prayer request
I just received from my
sister-in-law for Keegan,
a little boy in her preschool class
who’s been horribly injured
in a car accident.
But maybe it is times like this,
when the world looks awfully ugly,
that it is most important
to seek out beauty,
to be re-introduced to hope,
to say thanks for the little things
that keep this old world spinning.
