Today is my niece's 7th birthday, and we didn't get to celebrate with her today. My mom made a cake just in case she came.
From the time I woke up, I was confronted with the reality that she wasn't there. The empty house that was so still the silence was deafening.
When we finally did decide to get out of the house, there was a little girl at the restaurant with us who was celebrating her birthday. She had a cute little pink headband that proudly showed everyone she was the birthday girl.
I had to choke back tears at the table as I remembered we SHOULD have been celebrating my niece. As the little girls laughed and smiled, I couldn't help but see my precious niece's face. I hurt in a way I didn't think I could today.
Then something else happened that was another slap in the face. I said, "God, you see this! I know you say forgive seventy times seven, but I don't know how much more I can take."
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