Lolo Knows

                 Picture I took a few years ago of Kim and her son Devin.  I woke up this morning and found out my girl, Kim, lost her son, Devin who I wrote about his fundraiser here for his brain cancer he was fighting. I am so saddened but needed to find ways in which parents and families close to the child can cope with this type of loss. I am a mother and can only imagine how they feel as I am now dealing with my mother that is battling a stage 4 cancer in her brain. I found the following on Cancer.net that not only can help her, but surely can help me cope as well.  No parent is prepared for a child’s death, even if you have anticipated it during your child’s illness. People have different reactions and feelings after the death of a child and may grieve the loss in different ways. Grief may come and go in waves throughout your life. Although it seems impossible, you can eventually let the loss become part of who you are and go on to find happiness in life again.

We live in a very busy world and there doesn't always seem to be enough time in the day to complete it all. People can even come off a little self absorbed and not really take in consideration that others are busy but have taken an opportunity to think about you while you were running around. Today's tasks may even in fact be there tomorrow. So, what's 5 minutes of your time to speak to the one that called you and thought about you in the midst of the chaos. It just might be God's way of telling you to slow down and never take for granted those other blessings that we often do and before you know it, we have lost a friend or family member because we got too busy to even give them that precious and most treasured time of the day to them. Instead we think that they will be there tomorrow or the next day. Folks, WAKE UP!!! Look around you and really observe who really is in your corner and make a conscience effort to stay there. What's up with the people that are too b