In the last few months there have been two young women with children who passed in my community, one was very unexpectedly. As the day of the arrival of my baby comes closer, those things hit significantly closer to home. After a few minutes thinking about the husbands who will live without their wives, the young kids growing up without their mother, and the challenges they face, I quickly begin to mourn for them, and for all people who are in similar situations.
A few nights after the second young woman passed away, I was laying in bed with my wife, Bethany, unable to fall asleep, so I spent some time reading posts on the Facebook page of one of these women. Page after page of memories, prayers, and heartbreak. After about ten minutes, I saw the irony. I was laying next to my wife and I was playing on my phone, thinking about death, and how horrible it would be to not be able to be there for my family.
For the moments I have with my wife, why am I spending them on a device? In this season of my life when I feel pulled in so many different directions with school, work, and preparing for a child, why am I spending the small amount of time I have with her on my phone?
Life is too short to be wasting away staring at a screen.
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