Hard times..very hard  

Times  we will always remember...

Princess Diana's Death 1997 

I remember we were at Hick's Lake Bible Camp over Labor Day weekend and someone came on Sunday morning with the newspaper and the news.

A face we all recognize 

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Assassination  of President Kennedy 1963 

A patient came into the office where I was working and said " Here today Gone today"
Funny that after all these years I remember those words, but it was  shocking, hard  and world news.

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9-11

A before and an after... only a glimpse of the disaster 

2001 

It was a Tuesday morning, BSF leaders training day. I came downstairs and thought that someone had changed the radio station in my kitchen. It was always on, 24/7 and on Spirit radio.  

              No one had changed the station, 

                        an event in New York had changed our world.       

..................and.............

Who remembers April 29, 2011 
         A Friday that many women around the world dressed in their best English attire to watch  the wedding of a Prince & Princess

         But all the joy and excitement was halted when on 

May 2, 2011   the world's most wanted terrorist was taken down

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Each of us holds on to the memory of a loss.  A grandparent, a child, a best friend.  Or even someone we had never met, but the circumstances were harsh and close to someone dear to us.

For me, there are a few, but  most recently, there are two

 A child in the neighborhood of our grandchildren.  A little two year old was separated from her family while at the park.  When the father took one child to the restroom, he came back and the other children had not noticed the little one had slipped away.  The search party, police and helicopter spent the night  combing the area for her.  It was the next morning when they found her little body in a pond.  No I had never met the family, but the news hurt my heart. I cried for the family.  That precious life was taken, too soon.  That little one has a name. She has a family and loved ones that will forever hurt and miss her. 

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Personally, for our family, a loss we will remember

Tyler, lifted up to heaven just a year and a day before his 40th birthday 

Tyler went to school with our son, soon to be 40. 
 The circumstances of his death are hard to talk about, mainly because it was a series of events that were out of his control. And very harsh.

 Over 100 friends and family gathered on September 29th. 
 Many 40 year old friends and their parents  
A beautiful tribute to the genuine loving person Tyler had been.  Lindsay Anderson  opened the "Celebration of  Tyler's Life" with  prayer.  A very emotional and touching prayer. 
 Another friend was at the keyboard and shared  beautiful Christian music. We were not able to stay for the whole evening, but we left with a kite to fly in his honor and  the confirmation that

Tyler loved Jesus and they are together now and for eternity.   
That is the greatest memory  

We are reminded that we have only today.... we hear it often, but today, I am especially clinging to the friends and family that God has blessed me with.    Praying for them and working a little harder to spend time with them. 

I live an exciting life