If we've learned anything in the last year and a half, it's that life can be over in a moment. When we least expect it. COVID has hopefully reminded us to value the time we have here on earth and make the most of each second.
While no one in my immediate family was lost to the pandemic, I heard stories of people losing multiple members of their family. People I knew through social media. Famous people who had just always been there.

But it's not only a pandemic that can take loved ones away. I've lost so many dear to me to cancer. Such an ugly disease. Others have finished out their days on earth and passed on rather peacefully after squeezing every drop of life out--but it still hurts a bit to let them go because of how much they mean.

In the last few weeks, I've lost a dear man we worship with, the mother-in-law of an aunt, a sister of a dear friend back in Texas, a dear friend in Arkansas, and an author I knew through social media. All in the space of days.