finding words...

we attended the celebration service for jeremiah today. i can't really put words together to say anything?? i think i see things in snap shots, especially events like this one where so much emotion is involved. the snapshots that i walked away with yesterday were

• pulling up to the church and watching friends we haven't seen in years emerge from their cars and gather in the parking lot.
• the tiniest casket i have ever layed eyes on
• jeremiah's hand print that was framed next to his photographs
• the first glimpse i got of our friends entering the sanctuary
• knowing that sabrina chose the song blessed be the name of the Lord to sing at this service and then watching jeff left his hands in praise to our Father while singing it.
• walking toward the burial site and realizing that they purchased three plots (so they can be buried along side their son) this week so unexpectedly
• embracing our friends for the second time in four weeks... this time filled with an opposite emotion than the first.
• sitting around a table at lunch with girls i've known for so long... not saying much... but feeling so much comfort in just being together.

oh, friends, God is good... yet so hard to understand. we all deserve death... any moment we get passed one is more than we should have because of sin. i know this truth, but it doesn't make this experience any easier. i know the days will get darker for this family before they get brighter, but they are strong and they are leaning HEAVY on the Lord. Continue to pray for them...

there were so many beautiful plants and flowers that sabrina let me take some home. they are beautiful reminder of a precious life!