predictable/unpredictable

how life just play tricks on us, taking us away in our prime, leaving the people who love us so in a position of desolation, of loneliness, of grief.
the shock that hit me when i found out the passing of a good friend's mum today and the realisation of the unpredictability of life.
we hear the cliched tales of how we all always take life for granted and how we ourselves tell people never to do so.
and yet, it never really sinks in or hits hard until it happens to each and every one of us.
does it really take so much to have a lesson learnt?

i look at the things i've done today-(not in order):
played soccer from 6-9pm, attended service and AGM later on, pampered myself by eating char kway teow, and now sitting, pain free in front of my laptop typing this post out.
it really isnt hard to appreciate what we have and what God has given to us.
the trees, the flowers, the birds, the animals, the technology, the life.
i recently started realizing the beauty of simplicity and the simpleness of understanding how they came about: God created them.
we keep thinking of explanations for everything in this world, when yet, God is the only explanation.
that's what sets us apart from children.
Assuredly, i say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven. - Matthew 18:3

p.s. correct me if i wrongly interpreted anything.

spencer