Mortality

This week I've been confronted with mortality by the deaths of three people that were familiar to me. 

None of these people were family members or close friends.  One man was my former boss, another man was a respected member of the church my husband and I attended in the early years of our marriage, and the lone woman was the driving force behind the artistic elements that facilitate worship at the church my family has called home for the past sixteen years.  Even though I wasn't especially close to any of these people, and in the case of the men, hadn't seen them in years, each one of definitely influenced my life.