This is a first...a blog from my phone...so much on my heart...and I think of this past Wednesday....and thinking not sure a fan of Wednesday's in March!!!
I was on the road again on Wednesday...and stopped for a pitstop in Bennett...as I was getting ready to leave when a pickup pulled up and out climbed a guy who I took a double take as he made me think of Jay...and out of the other side a girl maybe a little older than the Firecracker...but close enough that I paused and wondered what kind of trouble those two might have got into...one I guess I will never know.
And I headed on down the road to pull into Limon, Colorado...those who know me...This town holds some very special people...but also a place where we said goodbye to my favorite son-in-law...and though his EOW was 3/9/11...it was a Wednesday...and traveling into town...I noticed the street was lined with a blue line flag...and I steal post and pic shared by the town...
The Limon Police Department would like to give a shout out to the Town Administration and Rich and Donna Metcalf at Pronghorn Country ACE for purchasing and Town Employees for displaying these Thin Blue Line flags! They are being flown on E Avenue and Main Street in honor of Officer Jay Sheridan's 7th Anniversary LODD.
Such a touching tribute and I also know that a fundraiser is in place with efforts to raise money for body armor for the Lincoln County Sheriff's office...
After a stop at the cemetery...I am back on the road...and go to the office...make a trade-off of hats and go in to do a little bit of work...I find out that a lifelong friend... Doris Ball...has passed...not completely surprised...but did not think she would go so quickly...damn that cancer...I had stopped to see her Friday in the hospital...the 7 year anniversary of her husband...on the "other side"... Curtis leaving us on a Wednesday as well...a week before Jay left us...and this morning while messaging with Jay's mom this song comes on by Colton Dixon...I had not heard it...but those who know me know often when I travel I will say see you on the other side...one of those phrases that takes on different meanings...
The other side...and at my kitchen table this morning had the visual of a red Rover game...and so many I love being called right over...only to be taken in loving arms...the loving arms of Jesus...of those gone on before...and I hear a story behind the song and it is a beautiful addition to...
And I think of some shared of choosing joy...and I think of wanting to take a find a frame for a picture I have that I want to take when I go back to Limon and join others as we stop and reflect on the life of Jay Sheridan.... pictures... I also wanted to see the Ball girls...but I head to find a frame at the Light House in LaJunta and walk in and there are those Ball girls...and after they leave I try to find a frame...after not seeing one I am told there are some in the back...we go back and the owner hands me one that she pulls off the shelf almost without thought or even being sure what it is...I had not told her what I wanted or what it for...but the frame handed me says No greater Love than to lay down your life for a friend...and tears and laughter come thinking what a God we have...
and here in the wee hours I seem to be able to ramble even on my phone...and the days begin to blur and getting later and I think about pictures...which do I pick...or will my eyes close first...and I think of Jaybird...of my friend Doris...and think of my friend...Doris' daughter talking of the circle being unbroken...and I listen to this song...
and I think of a picture Heather had shared...one I took of a Firecracker looking at her Daddy's stone and look at her and her daddy dancing and the words...three things...and she holding up three fingers...right there by the...three things will last forever faith, hope and love abide...but the greatest of these is LOVE...
There may be some who think that I speak too much on this...actually some think I speak too much period...of why do you want to remember so much... maybe because they loved so much and it is a part of me a story teller...to share this legacy of Love...and a verse that has become one of my life verses...from 2 John 1:6 says:
Love means living the way God commanded us to live...As you have heard from the beginning, His command is this:
LIVE A LIFE OF LOVE!
And I think of this life that we live and want others to know that this life matters...this life made a difference...my daughter has a wreath that hangs on her door...this season before spring...
And it is another family this life that we are a part of...and on her mantel...I caught some pics in the light...
And it is another family this life that we are a part of...and on her mantel...I caught some pics in the light...
And so with the light of day I finish up and think of the days ahead...I think of faith... hope...and love...of a night in Limon...a farewell tomorrow to my friend...of a corn hole tournament Sunday honoring another police officer who lost his life also in the line of duty...and I not playing...but hopefully holding one little precious Herrera baby...
And so this day filled with much emotion...and this not to seek attention but to say I love you Jaybird...and one day when Jesus calls my name...I will be ready to come over to the other side...but today...I just want to think about one on the "Other Side" who lived a life of love...Yes 4 ever in our hearts...
