life's mysteries

Friends, this post has nothing to do with "bucket lists" but perhaps everything to do with "I wonder why?" lists.  And my young friends who are reading this, maybe you haven't lived through enough experiences yet to even understand where this comes from....but you will, sooner or later.  Mark my words, you will.


Do you ever have those times in life when you wonder why certain things happen the way they do?  How one thing can set in place a series of things that sooner or later make their way to you?  It might take weeks or even months before you realize its full impact but once you see it happen, you can't help but think in amazement at it all.


One of my favorite phrases to quote as I have written this blog is, "It's all just a part of the plan."  And most of the time I believe that without questioning it and accept it as part of life's journey.  But other times I find it harder to understand and quite often find myself trying to figure out "why" some things happen the way that they do.  And guess what?  That approach doesn't work out too good for me.  


In fact, today as I was trying to figure out "life's mysteries", I received another "whack on the head" from God above.  And the message I got was this~"Peggy, stop trying to figure everything out.  Just trust Me that I know what I'm doing."  Any of you ever received that message from Him?  I get it all the time~and surely glad that God doesn't mind repeating Himself, over and over and over again because I seem to have a hard time giving that one up.


My life has been full of blessings and many of them have been totally unexpected ones.  Things that I never figured would happen to me seem to occur without any type of warning.  Take "Eleanor", my donor's bone segment, for example.  Because I don't know for sure who it was that gave the bone to me I can only speculate.  But this I do know, perhaps as long ago as 2009, someone lost their life.  They could have been a man or a woman, a young boy or girl.  Chances are likely that whoever it was, they were healthy and died accidentally or from some other form of trauma.  Whoever that person was, either they or their family members decided that when they died, they didn't want their life to really end without making one last difference in the world.  They made the decision to donate healthy parts of their body to someone who might need it.


Fast forward 2 years, August 4th, 2011.  A normally very careful bicycle rider (that'd be me) was riding home following a very wonderful morning ride.  Going way too fast, wearing no helmet and trying to jump a curb with her bike was a recipe for disaster.  In a split second of time, after crushing many of the bones in the wrist and arm, that rider desperately needed help.  That help came in the form of a donor's bone just a few days later.  The right people were in the right place at the right time for everything to come together.  Medical professionals knew what to do to retrieve the bone sample from my donor's body~medical professionals in Wichita, Kansas knew what to do to implant it into mine.  A series of events, very bittersweet, came together~~one life was given and another one was saved.  


I have been privileged to meet so many people in this life~many of whom I would have never dreamt to meet one day.  Our friendships have been forged through some of the strangest of circumstances, some of the most unusual series of events.  Oh man, how one thing leads to another and another and another....until finally it finds you.  


So, for life's mysteries, I still give thanks.  I may never know why some things have happened to me or why certain people came into my life at a specific point in time.  One thing I do know is this~I don't really have to know everything but I do have to trust that it was for the good.  May all of you reading this be able to accept the mysteries that life gives to you.  Don't try to figure them all out friends~sometimes it's better to not know.  Have a good evening everyone!