Sometimes you can come through an experience that makes you appreciate the very next breath you breathe. It makes you feel the heart beat in your temples. It makes you value the deep red and soft texture of a rose petal. Some experiences heighten your senses and your appreciation of them.

I’ve been blessed with a few of those experiences I think. They are called tragedies. Please don’t think I’m going Poe on you here, it’s just that I’ve been married to Jaclyn for 10 years now, and there is still something so fresh about waking up in the morning to hearing her breathing beside me.

There was a time when I wakened that I would, in my semi-consious state reach across the bed to feel the one who should have been there and was shocked awake by the emptiness I felt. It was at those times I wanted to go to sleep and ask God to let me never wake up again. It was a sad time of my life but made me value all the more what He has since blessed me with.

I see life now through “windows” of a different color.