Today a local schoolteacher was shot and killed by her husband, who then shot himself. I didn’t know this woman personally but I know many people who go/went to her school and knew her and her family. It’s so sad to think about what their children must be going through. One of them is in college at UNC, and one goes to the very high school her mother taught at. Imagine losing two people you love, and knowing that ne killed the other. The idea of a sudden and violent death brought back all too clear memories of the death of my friend Donnika. She was shot and killed this May, and I’ve never felt the same since. I’m all too aware that the next moment of life is not promised. I’m determined to live my life to the fullest every day because tomorrow might not come. I will love and serve people and hope to shine the light of Christ wherever I go and to whoever I meet. God help me never forget that life is short; That’s why I’m so happy to have hope in Jesus Christ and a promise of life with Him forever.
"Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money." Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that." ~James 4:13-15
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