Things coming out of nowhere...

So this was going to be a happy post about a yarn filled Christmas and all the cute animals that come visit our bowl of seed we have for the birds on our back deck, but life often isn't so nicely planned. On Saturday my Aunt Rae Ann passed away suddenly. Mom was devastated of course. I was perming Mom's hair when my cousin David called to tell us. Rae Ann had been doing so well when we saw her in November and Mom had sent her a photo album for Christmas because she had enjoyed the old pictures Mom had printed off her computer from scans. She had been able to stand and was working on walking because she wanted to come down and visit us at home, rather than us always driving to Spokane to see her. She had also been working on eating whole foods again, instead of all her food being pureed to a consistency that she could swallow. This was what ended up causing her death because she choked on a prune. Of all the things that could have killed her, the strokes, excessive smoking her whole life, living the life she led, it was a prune that was the cause. My Uncle Fred said that since the strokes she really had been just living on borrowed time. She came back to God and truly appreciated the people in her life and maybe that's what these past few years have been for. For us to be able to grieve with the knowledge that she is with all the rest of our family that is waiting for us when pass from this life into the next. So while we are all shocked and sad about the events that have occurred we must move forward with God at our side and not turn away with the heavy hearts we are bearing. We must find shelter in God because he lightens our burdens and without him they would truly be unbearable.