Just Because...

About a week ago, I got a nasty cold sore. It was smack dab in the middle of my bottom lip. Don't you just hate the feeling you get when it starts and you know that its coming on?? I HATE THAT!!! (D0n't worry, I started poppin' my L-Lysine, my Vit A , and my Calcium...) Monday, Taylor noticed. She looked and looked and looked. She started to ask me questions. "Mom, what is that?" I told her it was a cold sore. She kept staring... "Well, what happened?" I looked back at her and said that it was just something that happened. She looked even closer. "I mean, how did it get there?" I looked back at her, thinking that perhaps I was confused. I waited for a moment. Then it dawned on me. Every 'boo-boo' or every 'owie' she had experienced had come from a known cause. She had gotten hurt because Dylan hit her, or because she had fallen. Her legs hurt from growing pains or her baby toe was bleeding cause she cut it on the rocks because she was not wearing her shoes.

Of course I could have gone into the dissertation of the herpes simplex virus, type 1 and how it can be dormant...and on and on. But I didn't. I just told her that sometimes things just happen. Since then, I have reflected about that. How innocent it is of her, as she is not quite 8 (she will be in May), to still not understand that sometimes things just happen...and we may not know why. I wish I had the answers to why one family has six kids and couple that has been trying for 6 years doesn't. I wish I understood why one baby that looks perfect went back to heaven so quickly while one baby who had the cord around its neck 5 TIMES is still here. (I saw it for myself just last week.)

I'll wrap this up with a quote, (because I'm really into quotes right now).
This is from Neal A. Maxwell.

When in situations of stress we wonder if there is any more in us to give, we can be comforted to know that God, who knows our capacity perfectly, placed us here to succeed. No one was foreordained to fail or to be wicked. When we have been weighed and found wanting, let us remember that we were measured before and we were found equal to our tasks; and, therefore, let us continue, but with a more determined discipleship. When we feel overwhelmed, let us recall the assurance that God will not overprogram us; he will not press upon us more than we can bear (D&C 50:40).