Loss

We've all had people in our lives that we are so close to and then as time goes on we loose touch. Life moves on and we move on with it. You can go years with out thinking about a person and then something happens and they are thrown back into your world for a moment. This just happened to me with a friend of mine from my childhood. We were really close in elementary and middle school and then through high school and after are lives took us different paths. We have run into each other a few times over the years, but haven't kept in touch at all. Well, this week his dad passed away and now this person, that I hardly know anymore, I can't get out of my mind. I hurt for him. I hurt for his family. I knew his family well and I my heart aches for their loss. I have lots of fun memories of my friend's dad and times I spent with their family. It is in moments like this that we take a look at life. So today I look at life as a whole. The good and the bad and I say thank you. I say thank you to a good God for life. I say thank you for all the fun times I had with the Gregoire Family. I say thank you for my family. I know that my friend's dad loved this good God that I say thank you to and I know Paul is now dancing with the angels in Heaven!!