A Bittersweet Week.
This has been a bittersweet week so far for me.
On one end it’s been super great because my wife and I have found out that we’ll be having a baby boy come this November. You can read more about it on our family blog - http://allenandkaren.blogspot.com. We are thrilled beyond all measure and amazed that the life inside my wife’s tummy is our boy. I’m trying to queue up sleep but it’s not working. 
On the other hand it’s been a sad week because a good friend of mine passed away last week and his funeral was yesterday. James Anthony Larsen was 31 years old and passed away from a cardiac arrest after playing basketball with some co-workers/friends last Friday. It was a shock to everyone in our church and to those that knew him from work (he worked at Nuvox Communications). I’ve known James for a couple of years and my wife and I have eaten dinner with him and his wife, Lori, in the past as well. They have two beautiful daughters who will now never get to know their dad like their mom or friends did.
The exciting thing about it all is that James is now with our Heavenly Father and we rejoice with the knowledge of that. It’s also a wakeup call to us younger people in that it’s brings the reality that our life is but a vapor as it says in James 4:14 - Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. (KJV) Without the hope of Christ and eternal life we have nothing.
The other reality is that it made my wife and I think about our finances and other things should something happen. Does she know where our accounts are? How to access them? Is our insurance up to par? Some questions were easily answered as we’ve been working on this for a while, some need to be answered soon.
What about you? Are you prepared for the unexpected? Both eternally and financially?
Remember the Larsen family as they go through this time of mourning and healing.
