Why Read This Blog?

So why should you read this blog?  The title and description give you some answer.  But who am I to suggest I know anything about the above?  I will say this: I have lived through moments when death seemed not only attractive, but desirable; and moments when someone had to hold me down to keep me from sailing through the clouds.  I have watched that old enemy, death, try to claim a family member more times than I care to count and in some cases, succeed.  The world is an ugly, nasty place, yet in the midst of it daffodils grow.  Although we call them weeds and pull them out, nonetheless, they spring up each year to tell us that beauty is sometimes hidden in plain view.  Always there is hope.  Not even death is a final answer.  And we can learn the resiliency that sees us through these troubled times.  If that message calls to your heart and you hear yourself begging for more - more hope, more life, more light, than you have answered for yourself why you should read this blog.