The Thin Line Between Life & Death

Today is my sister Katie's birthday (HAPPY BIRTHDAY!) and it is also my aunt Tina's 1year heavenly birthday. On days like today the perspective on life and death become clearer and easier for me to see. There is a very faint thin line that separates the two dimensions. We walk foot on foot, side by side, heart in heart.
Life is a fragile, easy thing to lose and can happen at a drop of a dime at anytime.
Days like birthdays should be celebrated for that reason. You are here and with us, now. Everything could change tomorrow we would never know.  So many people take for granted the time they have here on earth with the ones they love, people let the time pass by without really living in it, feeling it, experiencing it, loving it. I have done this a lot through out the days in my life myself. Last winter was a really rough one on that perspective. I thought death couldn't have been more in my face at the time. My aunt Tina passed and then two days later my Ex sister in law passed as well. Both of their tragedies and demise came to us with great surprise. Then in February I fell pregnant with Stella and was granted a newfound joy and excitement of life growing inside me, just to experience that great loss again this fall. Is there something I am missing, a part of life I am not experiencing enough that God has to remind me of death so often?  To take a child so close to life? A dream of a lifetime faded to a reminder that death is the ONLY thing guaranteed to us, promised to us in this life.
Live your life, fully everyday. Love those you have in your life and appreciate them fully, daily. Experience the moments in your days fully; good or bad, easy or trying, happy or sad. Celebrate your birthday for its the day you became you, filled with life, able to experience everything this world has to offer, feelings only this life will bring. Birth is a blessing, life is a blessing. Everyday a life is made and everyday a life is gone, forever.

Live Love and Experience

~Krystal