JACK YOU BECAME A GRANDFATHER ON OCTOBER 29TH 2013. 

A BOY JACK!     JAXTON KITCH.


OH I KNOW HOW HAPPY THIS WOULD HAVE MADE YOU.


YOU WOULD HAVE FALLEN IN LOVE WITH LITTLE JAX.


HE IS BEAUTIFUL.


LOVE          

IF ROSES GROW IN HEAVEN

LORD, PLEASE PICK A BUNCH FOR ME

PLACE THEM IN MY BROTHER'S HANDS

AND TELL HIM THEY'RE FROM ME.

TELL HIM I LOVE HIM AND I MISS HIM

AND WHEN HE TURNS AND SMILES
PLACE A KISS UPON HIS CHEEK AND HOLD HIM FOR AWHILE

REMEMBERING HIM IS EASY

I DO IT EVERYDAY 


THERE IS AN ACHE WITHIN MY HEART

BECAUSE I'M MISSING HIM TODAY.                 

  

When I come to the end of my journey

and I travel my last weary mile.

Just forget if you can that I ever frowned

and remember only the smile.

Forget unkind words I have spoken;

remember some good I have done.

Forget that I ever had heartache

and remember I've had loads of fun.

Forget that I've stumbled and blundered

and sometimes fell by the way.

Remember that I have fought some hard battles,

and won, ere the close of the day.

Then forget the grief for my going

I would not have you sad for a day.

But in summer just gather some flowers

and remember the place where I lay,

And come in the shade of the evening

when the sun paints the sky in the west.

Stand for a few moments beside me

and remember only my best.

Don't think of him as gone away-

his journey's just begun,

life holds so many facets-

this earth is only one. . .

Just think of him as resting

from the sorrows and the tears

in a place of warmth and comfort

where there are no days and years.

Think how he must be wishing

that we could know today

how nothing but our sadness

can really pass away.

And think of him as living

in the hearts of those he touched. . .

for nothing loved is ever lost-

and he was loved so much!

DOWN MEMORY LANE I WALK WITH YOU
I HOLD YOUR HAND SO TIGHT.
I KNOW YOU HAVEN'T LEFT ME
YOU'RE ONLY OUT OF SIGHT.

STAY CLOSE TO ME
AND WALK WITH ME
HELP ME THROUGH THIS PAIN
WALK WITH ME THROUGHOUT MY LIFE
UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN

              
                  HAPPY 56TH BIRTHDAY JACK!
                             JULY 4TH 1956
                             I MISS YOU.

Although we smile and make no fuss,
No one misses him more than us;
And when old times we oft recall,
That's when we miss him most of all.

Keep him Jesus, in Thy keeping,
Until I reach that golden shore,
Then dear Saviour let me have him,
And love him as I did before.

From our happy home and circle,
God has taken one we love;
Borne away from sin and sorrow,
To a better land above.

As angels keep their watch up there,
Please, God, let him know,
That I down here, do not forget,
I loved him and miss him so.

Some day we hope to meet again,
Some day, we know not when,
To clasp his hand in a better land,
Never to part again.

We long for household voices gone,
For vanished smiles we long.

I prayed for death to come to him, and take away his pain.
But death, I am so jealous, I want him back again.
I went and knelt beside his grave, but no matter how I try.
The words just would not come, I could not say goodbye.

I thought that when he passed away, I would feel relief.
But the only thing that I can feel, is emptiness and grief.
I long to see him one more time, to tell him how I feel.
If I could only talk to him, I know my heart would heal.

I Wish I Could See You One More Time
Come Walking Through My Door
But, I Know That Is Impossible
I Will Hear Your Voice No More
I Know You Can Feel My Tears
And You Don’t Want Me To Cry
Yet, My Heart Is Broken
Because I Can’t Understand Why
Someone So Precious Had To Die
I Pray That God Will Give Me Strength
And Somehow Get Me Through
As I Struggle With This Heartache
That Was Caused By Losing You

FATHER,

WE COME INTO YOUR PRESENCE BROKEN BY JACK'S PASSING.
IT IS FINALLY OVER.
HE HAS LAID DOWN HIS BURDEN AND PICKED UP HIS CROWN.
HE SAID HE AIMED TO MAKE HEAVEN HIS HOME,
NOW HE HAS DONE THAT.
I THANK YOU FOR YOUR FAITHFULNESS TO HIM THROUGHOUT
THE LONG SEASON CALLED SUFFERING.
NOW I THANK YOU FOR THE YEARS YOU GAVE HIM TO US.
FOR HIS PRESENCE, HIS LIFE.
I THANK YOU HE WAS NOT SNATCHED AWAY FROM US WHEN HE WAS VERY YOUNG, THAT AS ADULTS WE HAD A CHANCE TO KNOW HIM.
I THANK YOU THAT HE WAS  NOT SNATCHED OUT IN SOME SENSELESS ACCIDENT.
I DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHY HE SUFFERED SO MUCH.
BUT I AM THANKFUL THAT HE NEVER FELT FORSAKEN OR ABANDONED BY YOU.
YOU HAVE URGED ME TO CAST ALL MY CARES ON YOU.
SO I DO.
GIVE ME THE COURAGE TO FACE THE COMING YEARS WITHOUT HIM.

AMEN.

HEARTBROKEN TEARS FALLING
MARTHA FOUND JESUS
SHE QUESTIONED WHY LAZURUS HAD DIED
WHEN SHE HAD THUS SPOKEN
HER DOUBTS WERE THEN SILENCED
HE WALKED OE'R THE BODY AND CRIED-
LAZURUS COME FORTH
AWAKE LIKE THE MORNING
ARISE WITH NEW HOPE
A NEW LIFE IS BORN
LAZURUS COME FORTH
FROM DEATH NOW AWAKEN
FOR JESUS HAS SPOKEN
DEATHS CHAINS HAVE BEEN BROKEN
LAZURUS COME FORTH
THE TOMB WAS NOW EMPTY
MARTHA STOPPED CRYING
HER BROTHER NOW STOOD BY HER SIDE
THE PHARISEES WONDERED ABOUT WHAT HAD HAPPENED
HOW COULD ONE NOW LIVE WHO HAD DIED?
THE REASON THIS STORY GIVES HOPE TO SO MANY
IS ALTHOUGH WE KNOW WE MUST DIE
OUR BODIES WANT STAY THERE IN COLD AND DARK SILENCE
WE'LL HEAR JESUS CRY FROM ON HIGH.
CHILDREN COME FORTH........


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EVEN SO COME LORD JESUS

WHEN YOU LEFT US, IT WAS LIKE
AS IF A GREAT TREE HAD FALLEN IN THE FOREST
AND LEFT A LONESOME PLACE AGAINST THE SKY.



THEY SAY THAT AN INFANT IS BORN WITH A CLENCHED FIST, BUT A MAN DIES WITH AN OPEN HAND.
LIFE HAS A WAY OF PRYING LOOSE OUR GRASP
ON ALL THAT SEEMS SO IMPORTANT.

GROANINGS WHICH CANNOT BE UTTERED
ARE OFTEN PRAYERS WHICH CANNONT BE REFUSED.

WHAT IS IT TO CEASE BREATHING?
BUT TO FREE THE BREATH FROM ITS RESTLESS TIDES,
THAT IT MAY RISE AND EXPAND AND SEEK
GOD UNEMCUMBERED.



IF WE REALLY UNDERSTOOD
IF WE REALLY REALIZED
ALL THAT OUR LORD HAS IN STORE FOR US,
AND ALL THAT OUR LORD IS CONSTANTLY DOING FOR US
THEN EVEN IN WHAT SEEMS TO BE OUR DARKEST HOUR OUR ONLY PRAYER WOULD BE-
THANK YOU!


ONE SHORT SLEEP PAST
WE WAKE ETERNALLY
AND DEATH SHALL BE NO MORE
DEATH!
THOU SHALL DIE!!


THIS WORLD IS THE LAND OF THE DYING
THE NEXT IS THE LAND OF THE LIVING..


GODS FINGER TOUCHED HIM AND HE SLEPT..........

"NOW IS YOUR TIME OF 
GRIEF
BUT I WILL SEE YOU AGAIN
AND YOU WILL REJOICE
   AND NO ONE WILL TAKE AWAY OUR JOY!"

Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room.

I am I and you are you.

Whatever we were to each other That we are still.

Call me by my old familiar name.

Speak to me in the easy way you always used.

Put no difference into your tone. Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.

Laugh as we always laughed

at the little jokes we always enjoyed together.

Play, smile, think of me, pray for me.

Let my name be ever the household word that it always was.

Let it be spoken without effort, without the ghost of a shadow in it.

Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was.

There is absolute unbroken continuity.

What is death but a negligible accident?

Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?

I am waiting for you for an interval, somewhere very near,just around the corner.

All is well.

Nothing is past; nothing is lost.

One brief moment and all will be as it was before.

How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again!

I'VE GONE TO BE WITH JESUS. I REALLY DIDN'T DIE.

I believe my steps are growing wearier each day
Still I've got a journey on my mind
Lures of this old world have ceased to make me want to stay
and my one regret is leaving you behind.

If it proves to be His will that I am first to go
And somehow I've a feeling it will be
When it comes your time to travel likewise don't you feel lost
For I will be the first one that you'll see.

And I'll be waiting on the far side banks of Jordan
I'll be waiting drawing pictures in the sand
And when I see you coming I will rise up with a shout
And come running through the shallow waters reaching for your hand.

Through this life we've labored hard to earn our meager fare
It's brought us trembling hands and failing eyes
I'll just rest here on this shore and turn my eyes away
until you come then we'll see paradise.

And I'll be waiting on the far side banks of Jordan
I'll be waiting drawing pictures in the sand
And when I see you coming I will rise up with the shout
And come running through the shallow waters reaching for your hand...

TWENTY YEARS LATER,

I STILL FEEL LIKE A MISTAKE HAS BEEN MADE,

AND I AM WAITING ON GOD

 TO TAKE IT BACK.

I WALKED A MILE WITH PLEASURE

SHE CHATTERED ALL THE WAY.

BUT LEFT ME NONE THE WISER WITH ALL SHE HAD TO SAY.

I WALKED A MILE WITH SORROW NOT A WORD SAID SHE

BUT OH! THE THINGS I LEARNED

WHEN SORROW WALKED WITH ME.

I knew him

                                                        As a child

As a boy

As a man.

For six months

I

stayed

By his side.

We talked of

Our childhood

Our children,

His life.

Questions,

And concerns,

Searching.......
The Bible

FOR HIM.

Healing?

I searched....

Yes!

Healing.

FOR HIM?

"For he has not despised or disdained

The suffering of the afflected one.

He has not hidden HIS face from him.

But HE has listened to his cry for help."

FOR HIM.

Reassurance.

Forgiveness?

I searched....

Yes!

Forgiveness.

FOR HIM?

"Praise the Lord O MY Soul

And forget not all his benefits

Who forgives ALL your sins

And heals ALL your diseases."

FOR HIM.

Resurrection of his salvation.

Hope?

I searched....

Yes!

Hope.

FOR HIM?

"Though you slay me

Yet will I hope in HIM."

Hope he held it tightly.

As I watched..

He looked at me.

Jesus is mine.

Do not cry.

Do not grieve.

Blessed Assurance.

FOR HIM.

"IF ONLY YOU WOULD SET A TIME

AND THEN

REMEMBER ME."

I REMEMBER YOU JOHNNY.

*Pslam 22:24-Pslam 103:3-Job 14:13

jkj

You're the lovely Brother, I've adored since I was small,

And for me the day you left us, Was the saddest time of all.

But all the memories that we shared, From when you were a boy,

Have only ever filled my heart, With happiness and joy.

You grew up and proved to be, A man both fair and true,

And every day throughout my life, I will think of you.

Author Unknown

Since Heaven has become your home I sometimes feel I’m so alone; and though we now are far apart you hold a big piece of my heart.

I never knew how much I’d grieve when it was time for you to leave, or just how much my heart would ache from that one fragment you would take.

God lets this tender hole remain reminding me we’ll meet again, and one day all the pain will cease when He restores this missing piece.

He’ll turn to joy my every tear with thoughts of you I hold so dear, and they'll become my special way to treasure our Reunion Day.

Author Unknown

Cancer is so limited...
It cannot cripple love.
It cannot shatter hope.
It cannot corrode faith.
It cannot eat away peace.
It cannot destroy confidence.
It cannot kill friendship.
It cannot shut out memories.
It cannot silence courage.
It cannot reduce eternal life.
It cannot quench the Spirit.

Author: Unknown 

His favorite color was red.  He loved ham sandwiches, corn chips and chip ahoy cookies.  Steak, Red Lobster, and Mama's gravy and biscuits.  Tenderloin and fried ham, and chocolate no bake cookies. 

He loved to read, loved Hank Williams Jr's music.

His favorite book of the Bible was Job.