A New Chapter in our lives...

                                  Maddy heading back for her future...

As a family we begin a new year without our family's matriarch and my beloved Barbara. For her grandchildren, with God's grace her memory for some will just be fragmented and others more vivid.  For her children...it is stark and real....all have realities and memories that will always be there. Each and everyone of them know what she felt and thought about their lives and where they were going....She loved each one exactly where they were.  I know that her only regrets would have been that she didn't have a few more minutes and words with each one.
I lost my mother in 2002....the realization of lost relationship with her was overwhelming even though we were very close. In the reality of life, I had missed what was really important.  The reality is...that when we come to the end of this life, all we really have to carry into Eternity are our relationships and our character. 

Though we are seeing the fading lights of those passing before us...we can still see the constancy of God's hand in the truth of His sunrise and sunset....Love each other fully through the days you have....
In His grip,
Papa Tripp