It's a great day to be alive!!!

Sometimes things happen in life that seem frightening to us....other times we have reason to realize how fortunate we are to have life...

I got a call from my mom last night informing me that thanks to friends and family who took the time to stop by for a visit, she and my dad are alive today!! Upon entering the house, the two folks who visited (separately) could detect the smell of gas and advised my parents to have a repairman check the furnace. Though it is supposed to be odorless (and obviously it was to my parents), there was a very high level of carbon monoxide throughout the house. In fact, mom said the repairman's beeper went off before he was fully inside the doorway. Amazing!!!

Thank God for providing my parents with 'angels on earth' (thank you, Lorainne and Starla), caring people who take time for others!! Perhaps this can be an alert for all of us. If you don't have carbon monoxide detectors in your homes and in the homes of those you care about and love, it may be worthwhile to purchase and install them today!!! In a couple of weeks, most of my entire family would have gathered there for Christmas....just think of the possibility for very different consequences...indeed the timing of this occurrence was a miracle!!

(There is an even greater irony to this story...but not one that I can share just yet...maybe in a future post. Let's just say, I am all the more grateful when such stories have a happy ending!!!)