Lifes little reminders

28 days since I last posted a blog here. 28 days without what I felt to be "note-worthy" material. However, it was only 20 days since my last post before a friend of mine passed away. Seems I've had a lot of friends die in the last few years. Most of them my age (mid twenties) or younger and so yet again life decides to remind me, yet again, to value each day when I get news like this.

My friend was a fourty-seven year old father of three and a husband of over twenty years. His oldest son was someone I knew as well, having been only 5 years younger than myself. It was just so odd to hear he had passed. He was a friend of the family that we had met through church years ago. He was very down to earth and always smiled and said hello. His wife sang at my brother's wedding and his children grew up around us. I find out the news from my mother last Sunday afternoon. They had gone to church and heard the news. Again, he was fourty-seven and ironically enough had passed from a heart attack after losing over fifty pounds the last year or so. It is a terrible shame and I feel for the family, I truly do. I think about how I will miss my friend, even more, I think about his best friend (who also attended the same church) and how he feels. Those two did a lot together and were the same age. So many people I think about because of this and I pray for them. I guess that is a sure sign you led a wonderful life, when people think about all the others you have touched in your life and how they will feel after you are gone. We'll miss you Tommy.