It is the life of a person like Elaine that makes one believe that Christ died, rose and will come again. Elaine, you may be gone physically, your soul lives in our hearts as brightly as when you were here in body. I still don't believe you have died. You are alive in me hopefully for the rest of my days here. Meanwhile, rest in peace in the bossom of the Lord, Amen.
Two years have passed painfully slowly and while I marvel at the changes we have all undergone in the time, I still feel the sharp pain of loss that I cannot run and tell her all that's going on.
That there is a part of my life she is not around here to see, and how I have to pull myself sharply together to remember that she is now one of the cloud of witnesses watching as we run the race of faith. Dad, sisters and brothers, no matter the challenges, remember, as the song says...Whatever my lot Thou has taught me to say, it is well, it is well with my soul.
