Thank You & a brief Update

Well, I haven't posted lately, just because I wasn't sure what to post. Life has been different, interesting, challenging, days (and nights) of grief, yet even laughter and peace in the midst of or tears.

We miss Molly with an ache that only God can provide for. His peace that passes all understanding has flooded us. I have heard it said so many times, but never understood what that truly meant until now. I know a peace that you can not understand nor explain, it can ONLY come from God.

We were overwhelmed with so many people loving us through Molly going to Heaven. We can not in any way explain how truly thankful we are to each one of you. Our phone rang contantly for over a month and I still receive calls nearly everyday from someone just calling to check on us and let us know they are thinking of us. We recieved so many cards in the mail it was amazing to see the stack each day. I just can not explain to you how loved we felt by God's people surrounding us! It has been almost 4 months and I am still writing thank you cards to people! I really am trying to get them all done before the end of this month. :)

All of our expenses for the Dr & hospital, funeral, and tombstone have been covered. We had no health insurance and no life insurance for the children, so this was a HUGE blessing! The Dr & hospital bill for 1 hour of critical care was nearly $5000 alone!

We took a trip to Alabama for a week after the tornados went through there and destroyed many homes in Shoal Creek Valley. We are friends of the Moores (www.MooreFamilyFilms.com) and Wests (www.Homestead-Blessings.com) who are friends with the Lees. The Lee family's father passed away while praying protection over his family. We were blessed to meet the Boyd, Crawford, Keen, King, & Wright families while there. It was a good week for me, but I had many times when I disappeared (just needed to cry alone to God). We have so much to be thankful for and are so blessed just to be loved by God. Even when everything we know and are familiar with is taken from us, we still have God and He still loves us. If you would like to help these families check out www.bradrick.org/helpALfamilies

We also were able to go to Montgomery, AL for 2 weekends and visit all our friends there. Oh how fun yet difficult that was, we had lots of tears filled times. We have some great friends there that have been such an example of what Heaven may be like, to be welcomed into the church family with such love.

I will try to post some moments that God has given me over the next few weeks. We have seen wildlife abundant, mostly deer in the most unexpected family gatherings, just to remind us of Molly in the moment.

I am trying to go through her closet of things that were packed away and still keep finding "treasures" of Molly memories. What do I keep and how do I keep it, do I frame it or scrapbook it, I don't want to keep it hidden away in a container. Praying I can find a glass table top to display some of her treasures in, so that we can all enjoy the memory of the person Molly was to each of us!

Please continue to pray for our family as we walk through this most difficult journey. It is our prayer as a family that we only grow stronger and love Him and each other more through this and that everything we say and do will glorify Him.

Until I have a few more moments to type.....