I Will Always Love You

Today, two days after the world lost Whitney Houston, is the one month anniversary of the man I will always love's last day on Earth, and approaching the one year anniversary of the greatest man I ever knew's last day on Earth. (that is a hard bite to swallow)
Today's picture ...

July 20, 2008 | Red Wing, MN | A co-worker of mine was getting married, so we took advantage and had a mini-vacation along with it... We were at the pottery place, just having fun outside.  I can't believe he was taken from us in a stinkin' snowmobile accident.  When I got the call that he had been in an accident, I'm thinking broken leg, something simple... not this!  I was always worried about it (Hence his last question, "Will you be mad if I go snowmobiling tomorrow?") and just didn't want him to do it.. but, he wanted to do it as much as possible this winter because he knew that next winter, with little sweet pea being here, he wouldn't get many chances.  Sometimes (rarely because I don't want to dwell) I wish I would have been a selfish pregnant wife and not let him do anything, since I "couldn't," but what kind of wife would that of made me?

... Joe, I will always love you ...

I heard this song in the car today, I have shared it before, but I want to use the words as my prayer tonight.

We pray for blessings
We pray for peace
Comfort for family, protection while we sleep
We pray for healing, for prosperity
We pray for Your mighty hand to ease our suffering
All the while, You hear each spoken need
Yet love us way too much to give us lesser things

'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
What if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You’re near
What if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise

We pray for wisdom
Your voice to hear
And we cry in anger when we cannot feel You near
We doubt Your goodness, we doubt Your love
As if every promise from Your Word is not enough
All the while, You hear each desperate plea
And long that we'd have faith to believe

'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
What if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You’re near
And what if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise

When friends betray us
When darkness seems to win
We know that pain reminds this heart
That this is not, this is not our home
It's not our home

'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
And what if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You’re near
What if my greatest disappointments
Or the aching of this life
Is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can’t satisfy
And what if trials of this life
The rain, the storms, the hardest nights
Are Your mercies in disguise

"Blessings" Laura Story

"Happy are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted." Matthew 5:$