People I love

Could y’all please go and tell Julia that life should not suck as hard as her life is sucking right now? No platitudes — she needs those like she needs more crisis in her life. Quinn, thank goodness, is doing really well although she needs to have her stent removed earlier than expected because it’s causing her pain. But Gage is having a really hard time and when Gage has a hard time, everyone around him has a hard time, too. He is really unhappy (he has a lot of reason to be unhappy). I mean overwhelmingly, scarily unhappy. Basically Julia and her husband are getting through days that most of us are blessed enough that we can’t even imagine it. And if one more person tells her that God doesn’t give us more than we can handle, she’s gonna have to deck ‘em because it turns out that God does give some of us more than we can handle and we just have to handle it anyway because we have no other choice. That’s where Julia and her husband are at right now and I’m just praying that it lets up soon.