i woke up this morning with you on my mind. i wondered how you slept. if you slept. how it was, sleeping in your bed, knowing that he wasn't in the room beside you. a friend of mine sent me an email and said that after his grandfather passed his grandmother swore her husband would talk to her. that she could feel him on the end of her bed. i think about how Poppy would come into your room and watch you checking your email while he looked through the paper. or you would look through the paper together. those moment were so sweet to me. he loved to be near you and i know that he's near you - near all of us - now, too.


i pray that you will always feel his presence (and His presence!) in your time of sorrow. i pray that you'll remember how amazingly loved you were (and are!) by your wonderful husband and the family he made with you.