Relay for Life

My aunt has started a team in honor of my mom, in this years American Cancer Society's Relay for Life.

I missed the first meeting, but i hope to get more information soon.

We will be asking for donations for the event. For now, if you are willing and able to give, please contact a family member.

My wife and I, my brother and his wife, my dad and aunt Linda will all be participating in the walk. I am not 100% sure who else will be walking, so forgive me if I did not mention your name.

The event is scheduled for May 16 & 17th, and will be a 24hr, around the clock walk. For this reason, we have the teams. Each team will walk the entire 24hrs, in shifts, so that no one person walks the entire time. The walk will be at the St. Johns High School Football field.

A New Day

April is here and is bringing warmer weather. Each day is new and with it new thoughts arrive.
Easter was different for us this year. Our family gathered. We are all learning to move on in this life and then something new comes along and the thoughts of what Sherry would have done hits us.

Grief is natural and an inevitable reaction to loss. We are not given a choose about having grief, but we can choose how to grief. As I go about each day the memories and the pictures reflect on our short time together in this life. I make time to reflect on our moments together and enjoy these memories.

Here is our latest picture taken at Easter. Anna of course is the only one we see changing. She now calls me Grandpa, and is talking ever so clearly. She is such a princess.
We did communion at Church this weekend, the first Sunday of the month. This time, however, it was most amazing time. The last time Sherry and I were together for communion I remember her being very emotional, last night found out why.

Perhaps this is how each day should be for us. You are taking the sacrament's in remembering whom Christ is and what He has done for you, but do it, as if very soon you will be in His presences, changes the whole experience. I realized that this time Sherry was pondering Christ and the price He paid for our sin, so that in a very short time, She could be in His very presence.

Sherry has experienced her first Easter celebration in Heaven.

"The Lord does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart." 1 Samuel 16:7