Weddings and Funerals

My older sister went to a funeral this week for a friend she's kept since the 5th grade. Addie was working in her garden when she died suddenly and unexpectedly of an aneurism. Her oldest daughter spoke and my niece Gwen wrote: "At the funeral today, a very sweet picture was painted of Addie and Larry. Anne told about a blanket that hangs in their bedroom. They bought it the summer they met while working at Sequoia National Park. They each paid for half of it. Anne said that rather than cut the blanket in half at the end of the summer, that "for the sake of the blanket," they got married. I thought to myself, "oh how sweet - the blanket reminds them of their meeting and time at Sequoia National Park and of their engagement and marriage." But Anne completed her sentence by saying that the blanket hangs in their bedroom to remind them that there isn't much worth cutting that blanket in half for. Obviously they don't want to cut the blanket in half and go their separate ways." Maybe we all need that blanket hanging on the wall to remind us of how important hanging together is. Life is short. Sometimes much shorter than we expect and looking back at the bigger picture we can only be happy the the blanket is still in one piece. Be careful with your life and your love.