One Woman's Tragic Loss of Her Husband

Ever now and again I'll click the "next blog" button at the top of my blog to see what random site pops up. Usually its a blog in Russian or Japanese or some other foreign language and after about 4 or 5 clicks of that I move onto something else.

Until this morning. A diamond in the rough of a blog popped up - a blog about a 29 year old mother of four children who lost her husband last month. This woman's husband was put into the hospital because a case of the Swine Flu turned into pneumonia and then things went south quick. Horrifyingly, the day after the doctors released him from the ICU, and the day after his wife was so happy to have him back to normal, he tragically died.

This woman has been writing this blog for sometime. However, in the last month, her blog has turned into a journal of how she has been dealing with this extreme grief. The blog is definitely worth a read for every married couple - especially those with young kids.

Word of warning however: it is raw, passionate, human, unapologetic, and real. Therefore, I would not show it to your kids (for some bad language). Also, I have no idea what his woman's belief about Jesus is.

This is where you women and wives can come in. Read this blog - especially the posts from October until now. You'll picture yourself as her and imagine standing in her shoes as she so descriptively tells of her feelings. However, when you want the tears and sadness to stop, you can just turn off your computer and call your husband on the phone. She can't. Her tears never stop. There is unending grief. Perhaps you can reach out to this woman and eventually give her "good news" if she doesn't know of any.

Take time to thank God for your husband (or wife) and realize that we are not promised tomorrow with them.