I didn't know her personally, but I call her name...

I didn't know her personally but she was only 41, a mother, a daughter, a dear friend to one of my best friends and, from what everyone has been saying, a joy to know and be around.  She died Monday afternoon in a robbery while working at the small grocery store she owned.  Apparently, she'd recently moved back home to Pensacola from Atlanta.  By all accounts, she wanted to take care of her terminally ill mother and start this new business venture in an effort to give back to her community.  To that end....she lost her life.  I keep thinking of all the people in my life who hopefully, but may not, know how special they are to me.  Then I say, well, the really special people know it and my closest friends surely know I'd miss them if they weren't there for me to talk to or bounce things off of or cry with and laugh with and....THEY KNOW, RIGHT?  Then, I keep thinking of how uncertain our next breath really is.  I get teary eyed when I think of not seeing my daughter grow up and go to school and prom and college and graduate and work and get married and have kids and all of the things in between those things.  I'll be here for all of that, right?  I don't believe this young woman's death is the way life was designed to be.  I don't believe that God designed it to be that a terminally ill woman and a 25 year old young man would be burying their daughter and mother this weekend.  I do believe that the world is so turned upside down and caught up in its ills (SIN)--- to the point that at 5 o'clock on a Monday afternoon, a would be robber walked into a grocery store with a gun, shot a woman who also shot back and killed him.  It wasn't designed to be that way.  Life happens, I know...but we have to figure out how to take action in our homes, communities and the world around us so that it doesn't happen like this.  I believe the sadness I feel is because she, though not literally, was me.  She ( a young woman trying to take care of herself and the people she loved)  wanted to do the good and right thing and in the end, lost her life.  Yes, I believe God knows all and has the final say.  I also know that it's okay for me to feel some kind of way when things like this happen.  I didn't know her personally, but I call her name because, but for the grace of God, go I.... Rest in Peace...TERRA FOUNTAIN-QUARLES...Rest in Peace.