My friend Jay (Jester) sent me a message last Sunday (June 26, 2005)
... his two year old niece, Caitlin, died that morning. She was
DOA when they brought her to the hospital.
She was only 2 years old! What could have happened? Was she
sick? Was she in an accident? As of last night, Jay still
didn't know. Her parents, Jenny and Ed (?) were distraught
(understandably) and I didn't want to call them to ask what
happened. I figured, I'd ask questions when I attend the wake ...
or ask Jay instead.
I found out today that she supposedly died of pneumonia.
Caitlin's death had me thinking ... life is too short --- and for some,
even shorter. Caitlin has not even had the chance to experience
life fully yet.
Death comes to all of us. Death can come for anyone. Death
does not take just the elderly or infirm.
It is always hardest for the people we leave behind.
Her passing makes me
think to my own mortality. Have I done all I needed and wanted to
do in my lifetime? Have I left any completed all I have set to
accomplish? If death comes for me tomorrow, will I be ready to
accept it? Will my family? Have I made a difference in
other people's lives?
Death is inevitable.
I just wish it didn't come so early for
little Caitlin. I wish she could have been granted a longer
life. But death comes to us whenever it will. Only God
knows when it is time for us to join Him and I suppose that it was
Caitlin's time. I know in my heart that her spirit has gone up to
heaven. I pray
that her parents and family will be able to recover and move on soon.
We may be granted 2 weeks, 2 years, or 100 years ... it doesn't matter.
Life is short. Let's make what we have of it worthwhile.
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