Happy Birthday Peatie!
Although you are not here for us to share this day with you, we know you are in Heaven with momma having a wonderful birthday. One day soon we will be there sharing many birthdays with you. You are rememered and in our hearts everyday not just on your birthdays.
Gwendolen
we have all lost someone we love and will always love and miss them. They are the blessed because we are all left behind to weap over our loss. They are happy and finally at peace, no more fighting and drama in their lives. It is too bad that it takes a death to wake us up to the fact that life is short and we should make the very best of our lives while we are here on earth. It seems so petty when you stop to think about all we fight about. Rest in Peace and know that We are Okay. Rachael needs you now, so be her guardian in death as well as when you were alive here. Love,Fran
All the things written about my big brother are true. He truly was a gentle giant as one sister said. Like our mother, he too was full of life and enjoyed it to its fullest. He, like her never met a stranger. Loved talking with and cutting up with all he met. He was able and did rise above his circumstances and enjoy the blessigns and goodness (manna) of each day.
Some of my best memeories are of the family gathering for a meal and Jr. enjoying the meal as much and probably better than anyone. Him and the seafood sald in a mound on his plate, snickering as he sat down knowing everyone was looking at that saltwater mound. Then of course, there was the talking about GROSS things at meal time just to see us gross out.
My most cherished memorie will forever be our conversations over the last year of his life. We talked about our Lord and His goodness. About how a Savior so pure and holy, so full of love and compassion for us that would allow lowly us into His incomprehensible kingdom.
Our last conversation was no different.
Jr. wondered if we would recognize God our father and the face of Jesus. If we would be able to comprehend who He is. I reminded him that God word says that we shall know Him as He is. He was in awe of that fact.
Jr. also spoke prophectically, of his last wishes. He said that he didn't want an open casket because that body was not him but the cacoon of who he was. He wanted me or someone to do like Sonny did us and let everyone know not to remember him in a casket or his funeral but, doing and being who he was every day. He wanted "IT IS WELL" played at his funera because, no matter if his body is battered and broken; or raveged with disease, that the troubles of this life would be over and It Would Be Well then with his soul. He said, it will all be well then.
So today, on the anniversay of his death, I CELEBRATE his LIFE that he and mama are living now, with Christ and all those loved ones gone before. As he whispered to me as I gazed into his casket; "Sister, you know that is not me, I am not here." His wish is that we all go on in Christ until we meet again real soon.
DECEMBER 8.
“And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.” Revelation 21:4
IN heaven we shall be freed from the in-being of evil, and be delivered from the tyranny of corruption. Sin, now our thrall, our torment, and our burden, will then enslave, distress, and oppress us no more. The chain which now binds us to the dead, loathsome body of our humiliation will be broken, and we shall be forever free! To you who cry, “O wretched man that I am!” who know the inward plague, and feel that there is not one moment of the day in which you do not come short of the Divine glory—whose heaviest burden, whose bitterest sorrow, whose deepest humiliation springs from the consciousness of sin—what a glorious prospect is this! “It does not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is.” The absence of all evil, and the presence of all good, constitute elements of the heavenly state, which place its blessedness beyond the conception of the human mind. Assure me that in glory all the effects and consequences of the curse are done away—that the heart bleeds no more, that the spirit grieves no more, that temptation assails no more, that sickness and bereavement, separation and disappointment, are forms of suffering forever unknown—and let the Spirit bear His witness with my spirit, that I am a child of God, and a door is open to me in heaven, through which a tide of “joy unspeakable and full of glory” rushes in upon my soul. And this is heaven.
But heaven is not a place of negative blessedness merely. There is the positive presence of all good. “In Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your right hand there are pleasures for evermore.” The soul is with Christ, in the presence of God, and in the complete enjoyment of all that He has from eternity prepared for those who love Him. All soul, all intellect, all purity, all love—“eye has not seen, nor ear heard” the inconceivable blessedness in the full ocean of which it now rejoices. Its society is genial, its employments are delightful, its joys are ever new. How deeply does it now drink of God’s everlasting love, with what wondering delight it now surveys the glory of Immanuel, how clearly it reads the mysterious volume of all the Divine conduct below, and how loud its deep songs of praise, as each new page unfolds the “height, and depth, and length, and breadth of the love of Christ,” which even then “passes knowledge”! Truly we may call upon the “saints to be joyful in glory.” Sing aloud, for you are now with Christ, you see God, and are beyond the region of sin, of pain, of tears, of death—“forever with the Lord.” But we cannot conceive, still less describe, the glorious prospects of believers; for “eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.” We shall soon go home, and experience it all. Then the eye will have seen, and the ear will have heard, and the heart will have realized, the things which from eternity God has laid up in Jesus, and prepared in the everlasting covenant for the poorest, meanest, feeblest child, whose heart faintly, yet sincerely, thrilled in a response of holy love to His.
Your life was unhappy here. You were going blind, we lost our daughter and there was nothing left for us here. You no longer have to grieve anymore for those who treated you bad, but you are in the arms of your master with no more glasses, skinny Ha! and cracking jokes about us. I pray for me,Rachael, your daddy,sisters,brothers and their families that we would pull together for his memory and let all the past go and try to look to the present and future when we will meet you again. The bible says to weep at birth and rejoice at death, that is the way you would want it. I loved you and you knew it even though you could make me so mad. Someday we will meet again, be waiting for me at St Peters gate. Love Always,Fran
My Daddy was a great man...I could always look to him for good advice or gettin me out of trouble in school and have him look back at me and say dont tell ya mother this is between me and you...This man was my whole world, my best friend, I couldnt ask for a better man or father in my life..He stepped up when no other man or anyone was there in my life. He took the roll of bein a father even though he didnt have to and did a wonderful job I thank god everyday for him in my life, I couldnt ask for anything better. He gave me everything even when he didnt have everything to give. I could always count on him to make me laugh even when it was the most depressing time in my life. I wake up everyday hopen to maybe look to him for good advice or just get to pick on him cuz it was just so funny but I cant cuz he left me to soon...I need him more and more everyday but it not about me its about him he is in a better place and is where he wanted to go, deserves to go, and where he belongs. Im proud of him for bein a dad, a friend, and for never givin up when times where gettin hard stuck it out till his judgement day came and now he is livin in paradise...now all he has to do is wait for us to make him complete along with him up there..I Love you and Miss you, I dont forget everyday and wont.
Jr, I sure do miss talking to you. You would call most every evening to talk about things you found on the computer and about how mama was doing. We talked alot about going to heaven and how great that day would be. We both agreed that God did not have to give us any crowns when we got there; just being in his presence was enough.We talked about how cool it would be to walk in the gardenof Eden or to be put over taking care of it. When we were crusing somewhere we were always talking about God,rejocing you might say, about things he has done in our lives and just the awesome wonders of our God. I keep looking to the east and listening for that shout,when we will all be caught up together to meet the Lord and shall forever be together with him forever.
im sorry for some spelling mistakes my fingers could type as fast as my mind was working!:( hahaha
Today I set out on a journey today,a journey that no one would forget. I handed my sister a new bible and told her that it was for everything she did for me.The ride was long but the talk and memories I would cherish. We did the things that need to be done and on the ending of that journey something unexpected happened;my journey ended that day too soon. I woke up in the most beautiful place and saw the golden streets. I peered up and saw God sitting on the throne of heaven and he said to me,"My son; your work on earth is done and you will live here in paradise with perfect vision and no more pain." That was the day I woke up in heaven and a day that I would take back for the world or beyond. I once was lost but now I'm found, was blind but now I see. Heaven way beyond what my mind could have ever phathomed and I am now making a pathway for my mother who will meet me here soon. I know my family may be in a lot of hurt but theres no need to fret for me,we will all be united again someday.
(This story came from my heart,something I thought Uncle Peatie would have wanted my family to know.He is in the most amazing place now and we will all be united in again someday soon. I bet it's beautiful in Heaven.)
Chelsea Williams
My brother My friend
My brother was one to the biggest hearted and funny people you could ever meet. He would give when he didn't t have it to give and never expect anything in return he was just happy he could help.He had a sense of humor as big as hes heart he could make you laugh even if you were crying. Although he was taken from us December 8,2008 from someone driving under the influence of drugs he still remains in our hearts and we will be with him again one day.
