A Life Cut Short

A shot.  A blast. 
Colors orange, yellow, and red fill the room.
No.
No.
Get up.
Get UP.
No No No.
Scrambling, hurrying, must get help.
Help.  Please help.
Please. Help.
This didn't happen.
This doesn't happen.
                                                      { A Life Cut Short}
There's a life ahead.
A great big beautiful life to be had.
There's family to embrace and friends to love and laughs to be had and dreams to dream
and a life to make and
plans for  
tomorrow.

Until there isn't
and you don't know the date
or the hour
or the minute.
And it's gone.

You're gone.

And there's family who will wish you were there every minute of every day.
Friends who will miss your smile and your laugh and your big huge heart
and wish you were there for  
those days.
There's the life you didn't get
but for
one second of time and space.

An accident.

Ten seconds {less}
you can't get back.

And where was God
when you made one.single.wrong.choice.  
Some things can't be undone.

The mother cries.  The father hurts.  The brother wishes.  The sister aches.  Friends hearts break.
For a moment
that we
can't get back.

And He holds you and He loves you and He makes you whole.

Your kindness.  Your laugh.  Your big huge heart.  Your light that fills a room.
You that He made.

And we thank Him and we praise Him and we love Him even when it hurts.

We remember.

For twenty years that could've been.

We remember.

There You'll Be

 Well you showed me
How it feels
To feel the sky
Within my reach
And I always
Will remember all
The strength you
Gave to me

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"Those we love are with the Lord,
and the Lord has promised to be with us.
If they are with Him,
and He is with us,
they cannot be far away."
~Peter Marshall