Two things happened today...
...we went to a memorial service for an old friend of ours, and my husband got a piece of fairly bad news about his business. So we're a little bummed out.
Our friend died of a rapid, aggressive and particularly awful form of cancer, and I honestly believe that her death was a blessed release for her. But that doesn't make it easier for her friends, or her family. We've known her more than forty years, and although she had her problems over the years, we still remember her as she was when we were all young, and the world was filled with possibilities. And so it has been -- we just didn't realize that some of them would be so unpleasant. I've written about it, and perhaps that will make me feel better when I read what I wrote in a few days' time -- and perhaps I'll share what I wrote with her brother, and her ex-husband. At the moment, I think we're all too emotional to deal with that.
As for the business matter, one way or another that will work itself out. In the fourteen years we've had this company, we've had what we thought was bad news in the past -- and always, without fail, the path we've taken as a result of the bad news led us to a better place than we would have gone without it. I just know that, much as my husband is putting a brave face on it, he's a little too emotionally fragile right now to deal with it. I really want to help him, and I don't know how, other than to say that I'm confident things will work out, and that there's a blessing waiting over the horizon. I'm just concerned that getting to the blessing is going to be painful and difficult.
Our friend died of a rapid, aggressive and particularly awful form of cancer, and I honestly believe that her death was a blessed release for her. But that doesn't make it easier for her friends, or her family. We've known her more than forty years, and although she had her problems over the years, we still remember her as she was when we were all young, and the world was filled with possibilities. And so it has been -- we just didn't realize that some of them would be so unpleasant. I've written about it, and perhaps that will make me feel better when I read what I wrote in a few days' time -- and perhaps I'll share what I wrote with her brother, and her ex-husband. At the moment, I think we're all too emotional to deal with that.
As for the business matter, one way or another that will work itself out. In the fourteen years we've had this company, we've had what we thought was bad news in the past -- and always, without fail, the path we've taken as a result of the bad news led us to a better place than we would have gone without it. I just know that, much as my husband is putting a brave face on it, he's a little too emotionally fragile right now to deal with it. I really want to help him, and I don't know how, other than to say that I'm confident things will work out, and that there's a blessing waiting over the horizon. I'm just concerned that getting to the blessing is going to be painful and difficult.