Thank you for sharing your story. Our lives are not something we can grasp at, like one may grasp for something that has fallen down in a hole and can be reached. It is not something we can hold on to and keep.

It is a gift. A gift from God—each day. The fact that we wake up each morning, we breathe, we have the perfect conditions with the position of the Sun and Moon. Each day is a gift. Isaiah 53:4 says, "He [referring to Jesus Christ] is despised and rejected by men, a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief".

Christ came down from heaven. He, though still fully God, experienced the pains, sorrows and temptations that we do. He was still fully human—and fully God.

He was the ultimate sacrifice for our sins.

Life, though the miracle that it is, is marked by the stain of sin. Our lives (as humans) are full of regrets, bitter places, dark paths and broken parts. It's by the grace of God that we still wake up, still experience the joys of life, still see a beautiful sun set. He creates our days and paints our paths.

It's because of Christ that we can still have hope. Hope glimmering when pain overwhelms, hope when life knocks the wind out of us; hope still existing somewhere to even reach out at when we experience the valleys of life. Hope.