catching you all up on my week

a letter i wrote to the youth sponsors

i am not sure how many of you will actually read this before youth tonight but i did want to send out a little greeting and to tall you what is in store for this evening.
if weather allows tonight will be an outdoor night with a campfire, roast some marshmellows, sing some songs and talk about life. this past week as all of you know has been a crazy one. it started with a visit to st joes and see the baby of shane and maria, 10lbs, all i said was i am sorry for your pain. it was a good visit as i saw where life started. then that evening came a spur of the moment trip to cleveland with bud to be with darcy and the rest of the hiltons. i was in cleveland when i received a call on thursday about my grandfather fading fast. so i hopped back in bud's car and drove home. while i driving back to pulaski i received a call of darcy's death. you never know when death will come. darci all though sick for a while just went to cleveland for a routine checkup. while there they put her under for a procedure and she never woke up from coma.friday i left pulaski for northern maine and arrived at the nursing home about 9:30pm. i couldnt believe that the man lying in the bed was my grandather. he had lost about 50 lbs and was very frail. i stayed the night there and woke up every now and then and could tell he was still breathing. the next morning we had breakfast and could tell that he was fading. his complexion started turning almost green and his breaths getting farther apart. as i held his hand he passed away. this was the first time i had ever been in the same room when someone had died. what now layed infront of me was someone mortal but i knew everything immortal about my grandfather was rejoicing up in heaven.tonight i am going to address all three people read ecclesiastes 3 as well as 1 corinthians 13:5 and tells you to examine yourself to see if your life is where it should be.