Life is precious!

When I got home from work today, mom shared with me a very sad story about a dear friend, Ray. I came to know Ray from my dad. He's a family friend. He looks up to my dad like he's own father as he lost his when he was very young.

He's a young man who is extremely kind and generous and works very hard to take care of ageing mother and siblings. It's hard to believe that he's a very successful self-made millionaire, yet extremely down-to-earth. He has everything going for him; he's good-looking, always has a smile on his face and made everyone comfortable with his mere presence. Just a gem of a person. I've not seen him for about two years, today he called saying he wanted to see dad and say goodbye cos he was dying of cancer. I was dumb-founded by this. How can God make such a kind-hearted person suffer? I was trying to close my eyes to nap but my thoughts keep going back to Ray and his family. Ray and the big smile he always had on his face whenever he saw me.
And then of course, I kept thinking of my angel, Ron. Ronald's cheeky smiles, I missed so much.

Mom told me that God loves good people and wants them with him. I answered, I can't believe He keeps the horrible, hurtful, crappy ones here on earth.

Life is precious isn't it? We always forget how precious cos we are so caught up by either all the happy moments in our lives or we are too bothered and complain about the horrible ones.
Have we ever thought about those suffering especially during this season of advent? Let's say a prayer and keep those whom are suffering (and their families too) in our thoughts.