journaling: enabled

This weekend was interesting. Closure provided on one front while a beginning on another. On Saturday, Liz and I went down to Prairie du Sac for Sam Hagstrom’s funeral. It was rather heartbreaking and I confess the only reason I didn’t break down crying during “Children of the Heavenly Father” was that the old ladies behind me were singing off-key enough (flat enough?) that it distracted me. There may be difficulties next time that hymn comes up at church though. I admire Sam’s parents, my friends Dan and Trish, for their strength through Sam’s life here on earth and now even more as he’s moved on to the life everlasting. I truly believe that you need to be a parent to even begin to understand how painful what they’re going through is. I’m a new parent. I can cry just imagining it. I cannot comprehend what they’re going through. I admire their strength of faith, family and love. I have two links to share related to this. The first is actually an LJ cut (have tissues ready)…
God’s Lent Child