Life is Valuable and Precious

A week ago, my boss brought his daughter in to work with him. We will call her M, she is 17 and she has cerebral palsy.  I was brought into his office to meet his daughter and to sit and talk with them.  This girl was smiling away when I came in.  She had just had a birthday so we all talked about that and that she was going out to cheesecake factory for lunch with her dad.  Then her dad went into her story, that his wifes doctor was to busy having an affair to stop her early delivery. M was born at 31 weeks, was diagnosed with cerebral palsy because of lack of air.  Another story came up of M having a spinal fusion surgery and almost loosing her from that alone. She died on the table, flat-lined and everything and they brought her back.  He dad says how she is always smiling and always happy. It makes you think about how we find stress in so many little things, how life challenges us in little ways, or how life isnt treating us right because of this or that. How is life treating M?  She is happy in her situation, but if you ask me, life gave her the short end of the straw.  After meeting her I am reminded yet again to not take life so seriously, to be happy with what God gave you/didn't give you, also to appreciate the gift of life.