Perspective is always good

I'll be honest, I really wanted to cry like a baby when I realized what I did to my phone the other night, but luckily I didn't. That would have been really silly, because it is just a phone after all. It's funny to me how sometimes when something like that happens it seems so huge to me when in reality it is quite insignificant. Somehow, God has allowed me to miss some of the big, hard, significant stuff. Unfortunately that is not the case for my very good friend Haley this week.

About a month ago, Haley's father-in-law and a very close friend of our family started experiencing some weird stuff with his head. Tests were done, suggestions given, and words like brain tumor and surgery were being thrown around. Well, this Tuesday afternoon in Dallas, Dennis will undergo surgery to remove whatever it is that is causing the problems. As if that wasn't stressful and HUGE enough, Haley is scheduled to have a c-section to deliver Baby Cooper on Thursday morning. This week is surely going to be the hardest of their lives. I can't even imagine the spectrum of emotions they're feeling.

I've decided I'm going to keep my cracked iPhone just the way it is because every time I look at it, it reminds me that those little things don't matter so much. This week, it's also going to remind me to pray for my friend and her family-I know they can use all the prayer they can get.