First Post

     This is my first blog post and I had been racking my brain on what to write about.  I thought I needed something funny or witty or maybe inspiring.  Then I got a phone call from my daughter.  Her friend's husband has throat cancer.  They found out yesterday and it appears to already be in stage 4.  This news put everything else in my mind on hold.  You see, the husband is only 39 years old.  He and his wife had 3 children, they lost the middle child when he was 12 years old to a 4-wheeler accident a couple of years ago.  The youngest is just 10 and they haven't told her about her father yet.  They don't know what his options are going to be, (they will find out tomorrow) and my guess is that everyone is still in shock.  How do you handle something like that?  I can totally understand the friend asking 'how much more do we have to deal with?'  But unfortunately, I don't have any answers.  Of course, I said a prayer for this family but, when I finished I couldn't help but wonder, about the age-old question of why does bad things happen to good people?  No one knows but at times like this only my faith calms me.