Loved Ones,
Last night we attended a softball game of the Cress Creek Coyotes. Ray played softball on the team with our friends and neighbors for two years and was just entering his third season last year when he got sick.
The team got new shirts this year and on each sleeve is a shamrock with RMF.
They presented us with Ray's "Fitzgerald" jersey after the game.
And while it is so hard to bear Ray's absence at events like this, it is so meaningful to see the visible representation of love from Ray's friends.
We so appreciate this love and support and the comment from one friend, "We just want you to know, we won't forget Ray."
This makes Ray seem not so far away.
I ran a race this morning and as I glanced up I saw a man that looked just like Ray. His baseball cap, gray t-shirt, two little girls, smile for his wife. It seemed like just a little farther up Ray might be there too.
It still seems impossible that he won't be coming in from the infield, cheering me on in a race, wearing those t-shirts he wore a thousand times.
We all miss him so so much. I'm so glad that someday, we will see him again in heaven.
"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade—kept in heaven for you." 1 Peter 1:3-4
not alone and not afraid --
kristin
Last night we attended a softball game of the Cress Creek Coyotes. Ray played softball on the team with our friends and neighbors for two years and was just entering his third season last year when he got sick.
The team got new shirts this year and on each sleeve is a shamrock with RMF.
They presented us with Ray's "Fitzgerald" jersey after the game.
And while it is so hard to bear Ray's absence at events like this, it is so meaningful to see the visible representation of love from Ray's friends.
We so appreciate this love and support and the comment from one friend, "We just want you to know, we won't forget Ray."
This makes Ray seem not so far away.
I ran a race this morning and as I glanced up I saw a man that looked just like Ray. His baseball cap, gray t-shirt, two little girls, smile for his wife. It seemed like just a little farther up Ray might be there too.
It still seems impossible that he won't be coming in from the infield, cheering me on in a race, wearing those t-shirts he wore a thousand times.
We all miss him so so much. I'm so glad that someday, we will see him again in heaven.
"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade—kept in heaven for you." 1 Peter 1:3-4
not alone and not afraid --
kristin
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