Loss...

Yesterday the little piggy received news that her friend had passed on suddenly. She has known her since JC, and were pretty close. Even though I've never met this friend, I've heard her name mentioned several times over the years. I think she was quite ill at one stage during JC (that did not stop her from achieving top grades), and thankfully that passed. But calamity had to strike again.

What's it like to lose a friend - so young, so suddenly.
To have her life cut short just like that
To experience something that most of us will not go through till many years later
To go without managing to say goodbye to family or friends
The number of things she has yet to achieve, will achieve
What could have crossed her mind during those final seconds?
Did she know...?

While life goes on for the rest of us, hers, once on a similar track, has taken a separate path.

I think the piggy has had to deal with a number of setbacks and emotional upheavals in the past year...just hope that she will, like our blessed Mother, ponder these things in her heart and grow from her experiences. Thank God that she was at the rally yesterday...the power of the Spirit will prevail.