“Blessed are those who mourn..

for they will be comforted." - Matthew 5:4

March 20, 2012 my Aunt Ruby would have turned 48. Her birthday always falls a week before mine, and she exactly 20 years older than I am, she should have turned 48 as I am turning 28. *sigh*

I didn’t expect it to be such a rough day, but it was. Anytime my Dad cries, it hurts my heart. I listened to Laura Story’s "Blessings" many times that day, and found comfort through her words..

“What if your blessings come through rain drops, what if your healing comes through tears." - this is exactly what the Lord did for us. He did heal Ruby, just not this side of heaven. I know that His ways are so much higher than our ways, yet every now and again I become so heavy hearted that I wonder why she wasn’t healed here?! I pray that my Dad and his family will find the love for Jesus the way my Aunt Rudy and I do. Because while this Earthy separation is sad, without accepting Christ as ones personal savior there will be eternal separation from her.

My mom asked me if I would go to the cemetery to take some flowers and a birthday balloon, of course I was glad to. When we pulled up we saw my Aunt Lanell and Uncle Mark there. Lanell was standing in the rain without an umbrella or coat in tears. I can not imagine visiting one of my sisters on their birthday this way. We stood in the rain for quit a while, no words were really needed. - I did not know that Curtis took a picture of us at the cemetery from the car, until I was looking back through my phone while in Kansas City the other day.- It was a sad day!