Monday Moment

This past weekend I was unable to log on to my job's network. If you really know me then you know i hate not being able to answer my email. I guess that is one of my quirks. Okay I may be a bit OCD. So, this morning I was able to log on and low and behold I got to check my mail. No fires to put out. Just your typical work emails One email from a person I have recently gotten to know emailed me. She mentioned that though just a few weeks ago we hardly new each other because of present circumstances we have developed this friendship. She said she couldn't explain our connection, but we have one. Sometimes life circumstance put people in our paths to to help us on our journey.
What has drawn me to this person is the challenge she is presently facing with her child. This child has been hospitalized and will be till we really don't know when. Her journey brought me back to one I experienced with my youngest son. When my youngest son was three weeks old he was hospitalized with a life threatening illness. Those days were perhaps the most difficult days I have ever endured as a parent. The heartache you feel can't be described. But now as I write this post I can still feel that lump in my throat and recall the loneliness felt. One day when my son was at his worst. He was being closely monitored during the night because he was showing of respiratory failure. I remember crying out to God to spare his life and that he would have an abundant life. I told God if he ever put someone in my path that would endure something similar, I would do what ever he lead me to do to encourage/bless them. Well, four years later it has happened and here I am. We don't know the journey God will take us on or the people he will bring into our life to help lead us on the way. I don't call events in our life trials, because I believe all things are part of our journey in this thing called life. What do we do with our journeys? Will we simply put them on shelf and hope we never endure heartache again or will we pay it forward and walk beside someone and shed the wisdom God gave us so they can walk a step forward?