Counting my blessings. . . Thought I'd share.

I’m with you Jeff. Love them and hold them close.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

This kind of thing used to scare the ** out of me when my son was very young (2 1/2 now), I’m not sure he liked me poking him in his sleep every hour or so over night but at least I knew he was still ok. Very frightening thought.

-- Perth, Australia

Thanks, Jeff for the reminder.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

All of my kids are grown now but I still remember those days of checking on them in the middle of the night. I now have other things to worry about. I have one son in the Navy serving aboard the Kitty Hawk in Japan. My youngest son will be leaving to Great Lakes Naval Training Center on February 20th. My daughter also spent seven years in the Navy, also on the Kitty Hawk in Japan. Though she isn’t in the Navy any more she lives in Corpus Christi, Texas while the wife and I are stranded in Iowa, (I love that term, it’s the name of a song by Manfred Mann’s Earth Band). I worry about all of them.

-- Owen Johnson - aka IowaWoodcrafter

Some things are just more important than others. It keeps you from thinking of cutting a piece of oak an inch too short as a real tragedy.

-- Maplewood, MN

yah.. and those “lazy teenagers”?? they are those same precious miracles…..... what a gift we have been given to care for..
(sympathies to the family of the little one)

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Jeff,

That is very sad about your friend’s child. I can’t imagine how hard it would be to get over something like that. It truly is good to be able to put yourself in the place of others, and then “count your blessings.” Everyday that we take another breath, and don’t get into a car accident, and don’t fall off a roof, and don’t cut our fingers in our power tools is another opportunity to thank God for His grace and goodness to us.

-- Tom, Surfside Beach, SC - Romans 8:28

Great point!

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

Perspective, It is soo easy to loose it isn’t it.

Tahnk you for the reminder.

-- Hope Never fails

So, so sad. They must be blaming themselves. All you can do is reassure them and be there to support them. I can’t even imagine that kind of pain, even with my girls all grown, it would be unbearable.

-- robbi