This is a post that breaks my heart to write....The man in the photo above is my second cousin, Howard Lanier III...
Today is his birthday...Had he of lived...He would have been 32 years old...
He died this past Thursday...We don't know the reason yet...He went into Cardiac Arrest and died soon after...
31 years old...
That's how old I was when I got married...
Life was just beginning.....
That photo above was taken on his wedding day, this past November....The happiest day of his life...It was also the last time I saw him alive...
I can't get ahold of this...He was such a vibrant young man...College Graduate...Had just bought a beautiful house and married for about four or five months...I didn't get to know his wife...
No one this young with so much promise, so much life...Should be dropping dead...I just can't get around it...
He was a phenominal young man and I was so proud of how he was conducting his life....I'm still trying to wrap myself around the fact that he is no longer amongst the living...
Pray for me and my family.
Howard Lanier III
April 1, 1984 - March 30, 2016
Rest in Peace!
Friday, April 1, 2016
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
KEEPING THE FAITH: RANDOM PRAYERS "ON THE DOWNLOAD"
DEAR GOD: Sometimes anger seems so near to the surface of my life. An unwelcome word, the remembrance of a past hurt, a disappointment I had not expected can make my emotions swirl with the force of a small cyclone. Sometimes my heart feels hot, my nerves feel edgy, my mind feels like lit dynamite. And sometimes, I just turn silent, go inward, cut myself off from anything and anyone that could ease the throbbing inside. I hold on to my anger, as if to let it go would render the reason for my anger meaningless. I pray that your great love will burn away my anger and leave me settled in the cool breeze of your presence. Help me let go, not only of the anger, but of what made me angry in the first place. Let me breathe deep the wonder and peace of love. Amen.
2 comments:
Post a Comment