Real Headlines, Real Choices

Susan, 37, and Andrew Miller, lost wife's battle with cancer, after celebrating their son’s birth six weeks ago. “This lady was the real deal,” Mr. Bowman said. “When she learned of her [pregnancy and cancer diagnosis], she knew she would not sacrifice her son’s life. She had a strong ethic for life.”
Survivors other than her husband and son include three daughters, Hannah Joy Miller, Madeline Helen Miller and Katelyn Ashley Miller, all of Cumming; her mother, Barbara Louise Simpson of Strongsville, Ohio; two sisters, Lisa Sherrard of Strongsville, Ohio, and Sandra Arrow of Dacula; and a brother, William Simpson of Keller, Texas. (Source: ajc.com )

I-275 Baby Death: Mom's ex-boyfriend caught after beating then throwing her baby out of car window in Tampa, killing the 4-month-old child. McTear was located in Tampa just after 9 a.m. on Arlington Drive. McTear is listed as a fugitive on the Florida Dept. of Corrections Web site. (Source: BayNews9.com )

Roger Penske, owner of the second-largest U.S. auto retail chain by revenue, has emerged as a potential buyer for General Motors Corp.'s Saturn brand, people familiar with the situation said. The auto maker, which has said it will abandon Pontiac, is working to sell Saturn, along with its Hummer and Saab brands, while surviving on federal loans.
It has until June 1 to convince the Obama administration it can survive without seeking bankruptcy protection under a Chapter 11 filing. (Source: FoxNews.com)

From a world view, local view or simply the people we know around us....Life is always throwing the hard truth of crime, poverty, dispair and death our way.
I realized the last two days why I don't watch too much news or television. If we have a choice to breath life or death, then the TV doesn't seem to be the place to find LIFE. The reality of life doesn't allow us to live in a bubble or to not be affected by the things around us.

The first article I posted was from a classmate from my husbands school. That article is more than a story about a women who wanted to battle cancer with the tenacity that she built a private school with because it was someone's sister, daughter, mother, friend. Someone that made a choice to fight a battle in spite of the odds, and gave birth to a healthy son.

The second article is a tragic scene ripped from someone's nightmare to desparately fight to keep a crazy man from taking her child in the middle of the night. The entire drama will unfold soon I am sure that no matter what is discovered, this women was in a loud dispute with a crying child while people were feet from her in their homes and the life of a child was taken in a cruel and savage way.

The last article could be a glimmer of hope to so many who face uncertain futures but in reality no matter how it unravels people will have lost their security. In the worlds economic game, mergers or purchases leave the employees that are left in a sense of limbo. We will have to wait and see if Penske can convince the Obama administration that there is hope left for part of GM.

No, I don't want to sound gloomy. I WANT TO BRING HOPE... The world will always sound the alarm that the sky is falling, in different ways and there is plenty of truth too.
WE NEED TO TELL THE WOLRD the story of a SAVIOR who is more than a character in a book, who is more than a wish or a prayer but JESUS CAN TOUCH YOUR LIFE AND GIVE YOU HOPE.

Does finding Jesus really change the tragedy? Well, it may not go away and life still affects you, I can assure you that knowing the Hope of Jesus can change YOU. By finding a purpose, a strength outside of myself, I have found a reason to keep reaching for my goals and pursuing the choices that will make a positive impact of people around me.

Romans 5:1 "By faith we have been made acceptable to God. And now, because of our Lord Jesus Christ, we live at peace with God. 2Christ has also introduced us to God's undeserved kindness on which we take our stand. So we are happy, as we look forward to sharing in the glory of God. 3But that's not all! We gladly suffer, because we know that suffering helps us to endure. 4And endurance builds character, which gives us a hope 5that will never disappoint us. All of this happens because God has given us the Holy Spirit, who fills our hearts with his love. 6Christ died for us at a time when we were helpless and sinful. 7No one is really willing to die for an honest person, though someone might be willing to die for a truly good person. 8But God showed how much he loved us by having Christ die for us, even though we were sinful. "