Friday, April 1, 2016

Death Be Not Proud

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!

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KEEPING THE FAITH: RANDOM PRAYERS "ON THE DOWNLOAD"

DEAR GOD: You know the emptiness of my heart. Sometimes I wonder if you are there, if you hear, and if there is any hope that my situation will be different. When loneliness looms around me, when my questions are unanswered, when no one seems to care, when days and nights go on and on with no change, when I fall deeper into despair, I pray that you will let your peace fall upon me as gently as the spring rain that waters the earth. Remind me of your unconditional and eternal love for me. Assure me of your presence. Fill my heart with the hope that my life is held in your hand. Lift my pain so that joy may flow freely again through me. I ask this for the sake of your love. Amen.









































































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