Independence Day... God Bless the USA

If Tomorrow all the things were gone, I'd worked for all my life.  And I had to start again, with just My Children and My Wife....

This is for you Bobby.  I will NEVER forget you singing this at Grandma's house... I believe on the 4th of July.  And I think we were waiting to go watch fireworks.

And I think we were BFF's in the making.  And I lost track of you.   :(

And after all these years, I can't think of a DAMN thing I can do about it.

But I love you. And I'm sorry. And if there is any salvation, I will try to make it right.

And in light of your Dad's passing, your upcoming Birthday, and it almost being the 4th of July, I think this song fits best now:

Let freedom ring, let the white dove sing
Let the whole world know that today 
Is a day of reckoning.
Let the weak be strong,let the right be wrong
Roll the stone away, let the guilty pay
It's Independence Day.

God Bless the USA!!!!  And all of the people like you and your Dad ♥♥♥

Tough

I have learned through MUCH trial and error, that the times when I try to put limits on what I can put up with, is when some of the most FIERCE trials come.

And I FIRMLY believe that it's The Lord's way of showing me that I am stronger than I think.

It's become so consistent, that one day when David was in town last, I shared this with him.... and was SHOCKED when he put his arms around me and said "It's ok, you can be weak for once."  And I just cried while he held me.

But this past month, I have had things THROWN at me (figuratively, of course ;-) ) and as I push through, I have watched as weaker people HAVE crumbled.  And I don't say this to gloat.  I boast only of My God, and what HE has shown me!!!!  He has shown me just how much I CAN do! ♥

.... In other news, David will be home in 10 days :D

Remember

I remember you. Do you remember me?  Do you remember Grandma had that one specific tree?

We had to be just 3 or 4.  You were right there... just next door.

I think there's an idea behind what is, but what?  You won't get close enough to tell.

It took me all these years to see, I left you there in Hell.

So now, it doesn't matter who or where I am.  You have left, gone away, and become a foreign Man.

Do you remember that one time you called me on the phone?

Do you remember that one time we had that crash right near your home?

I walked away both times.  I Don't know what you did then.

And now I'm trying to sort it out.... unless all the sorting's done.

Death of a Marine

My Uncle Guy.... My Mom's Twin