I can't find the song or the lyrics ANYWHERE! Gah!
Well, it's by The Warren Brothers...a country band out of the 90's...they had a couple big hits.
This song always got to me.
"While somebody's hurting, somebody's laughing, somebody's living and somebody's dying."
So true today.
I picked up my brother from the airport who had to fly in to see some people about a kidney transplant...he was told within the next 3 months! YAY! Happy, happy!
While spending time with him, I get a text from my dear friend a few hours away saying her mother-in-law is clinging to life and to please pray she'll go quickly. They are keeping her comfy and that's it...she has maybe a day. She has dementia among other problems.
So, while we're having a good time, receiving EXCELLENT news, somebody is losing someone important.
We had to deal with a great loss two years ago almost to the day. Myself and two other friends were preggers and all due near each other. We don't live close...one is back east, the other is about 4 hours away. One was due in June, with a boy, the other woman and I were having September babies, both girls! We were all excited, texting each other our joys and our pains, our cravings and our weird dreams. It was truly beautiful.
I got a call at 6 a.m. from a friend that lives close to the 4 hour away friend...the baby was still breached, and his shoulders got stuck. She was having a home birth and they lived about 45 minutes from the hospital. He didn't make it. I remember sobbing, big and round while my husband cradled me. When I composed myself, I called my friend back east and we talked and cried together. We both felt guilty that here we sit, happy and baby kicking, and she had lost her little love.
Our little girls were born happy and healthy despite mine having a few days in the NICU which scared me near death.
So, as I sit tonight pondering life and death...the world moves on, it doesn't stop...somebody's living and somebody's dying.
<3
Jessie
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