FAmily and Friends

This morning my heart is leaning towards my family, especially my brother Dale and his family. They lost their only son Sunday and will bury him today in the old McGinus Cemetery at the top of turkey ranch hill west of Patterson.
There are lots of Faux families buried there. My Grandmother buried Grandpa Faux there because it was next door to the old family farm. She lined the graves with a cement and rock foundation and planted many flowers there so it would always be decorated even after her death.
Decoration day or memorial day were important in our family. Dad would get the flowers and we would leave early and drive from cemetery to cemetery looking up loved ones graves and decorating them so they would never be forgotten. Then we would watch the veterans memorial service at the Winterset cemetery and then go to the city park for a picnic of friend chicken and all the trimmings. Mom would had to have gotten up very early to fry all that chicken.
I had five big brothers and each and every one of them had a little sister Me!
Larry will be joining his baby sister who died in her first year of life. Dale and Sheryl never got over the death of Lisa. She would remain their baby for forever.
Lord we ask you to comfort them now in their sorrow and turn their mourning into Joy! The Joy of the lord.
Larry was a cute little guy. Growing up he was only four years older then my own son Danny.
Sherry and Larry were 4 and 6 and Danny was too young to stand up by himself. I had them hold his hands in between them so I could snap their photo and I remember they let go of his hand and he fell over backwards without their support. We laughed and laughed. Danny was unharmed and I scooped him up and kissed away his tears.
Life seemed so much simpler in those days. I thought time moved too slow. Oh what I would give to live those days over again. I would have taken time to enjoy every precious moment.
We can fondly look back but we can not return to those days and ways , We must go forward and live each day to the fullest and live and love with all our hearts. Life is too short and just a dash between our birth and our death. So it is important what we do with the dash. Life is like a vapor here for a while and then gone.
Tell the ones you love that you love them and hold them dear. and prepare them to meet their Master and make him their Savior so we can all be reunited in heaven again one day soon.