Today my heart is heavy as Ryan has been gone for an entire
month. We have received much peace and
comfort during this hard time; however, it is hard to imagine this earthly life
without him. I am reminded of Ryan every
time I see the color orange and that makes me smile. I find myself wearing it very often in his
memory. Today our family and many others
will wear orange in honor of him. A
friend of mine came up with this and it seems fitting. OurRyanAngelNearGodEveryday!!!
Thank you to all those who are still reaching out to our
family and serving in so many ways. We
truly appreciate all that has been done for us.
It has eased our burdens and lightened our load. Today as you are remembering Ryan and our
family I would ask that you turn your thoughts and prayers to another family in
so much need at this time. They live in
Hooper and are friends of ours. Their
little girl McKennlie was in an ATV accident on Friday and is in Primary
Children’s Hospital with brain injury and they are going through the same
heartache we felt. They have set up a
blog http://mckennlie.blogspot.com and it is my prayer that they receive all the
love and support as we did. Prayer is
powerful and miracles do happen. We have
witnessed so many ourselves.
We love you Ryan. You
will always be in our hearts. You have
touched our lives and have made us better.
We will miss you and look forward to being with you again someday. Until then we will just try our hardest to
make you proud as you have made us so proud of you and all you stood for and
all you did. I know you are smiling down
on us and will be with us forever.
I love you sweet boy,
Mom
My Heart is aching for you and Mckennlie's family! I just went over and read her blog and it is very similiar to Ryan. I am so glad they have you guys for support. We love you guys and we will keep you and Mckennlie in our prayers. If you know of anything they might need, I will be at primary's with Tallin for a few more days probably so I'd be more than happy to bring them a few things. :)
ReplyDeleteYou continue to amaze me! This week has been such a rough one for all of us. You continue to be an example of strength and faith to me everyday. Thanks for helping to support the Provosts. I know how hard hearing of this tragedy brings back the memories for you. I love you dear friend and will continue to pray for your family! Love always Kim
ReplyDeleteCatherine, thank you for sharing your sweet words to Ryan. I'm so glad you put up the acronym for orange, we will always think of it as "Ryan's color". We look forward to the tradition of wearing orange and hopefully we'll be there one of these times to see the balloons:) Chris didn't have an orange shirt either but we quickly remedied that! I'm so sorry to hear about your friends, we will keep them in our prayers.
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