Randal Scott...

 Today your birthday...you my cousin...my friend...many times like a brother.    Today I think of you on your birthday and how I have not written about you since I got the news you have left this life...

I think of a favorite picture of you with my Dad.     How he loved you and I wonder about Heaven and what it is like and if you two are reunited...

This morning as I thought of you...the sun was working at coming up and I thought there it is...Randy's sunrise...and I turned my camera and there was a bird in the tree...a sparrow joining me in watching the sun come up over the hill.  

I think of days gone by...Growing up with you down the road...times when I wasn't sure I had another friend...there you were playing basketball with me at recess.    You doing a Cheech and Chong routine while milking the cow and I remember sitting and laughing so hard.   You putting on heavy boots to run in so you could jump higher playing basketball.    I think about how strong you were.  How funny you were...There a picture that I came across...of days gone by...you messing around but still taking care of others...

I remember then how your life forever changed...that truck that you had worked on and made so sweet...and then there you were in a wheelchair.    I remember weekends driving to Denver as you went through rehab and then you came home and fun times still...I still remember one night in Fargo's parking lot and again laughing so hard at you...of you coming and spending time with me and my family...helping do what you had such a gift for...fixing those motors...and such special times we had...

And this morning I asked why do we disconnect...lose touch from those that are so special to us...so many years pass by so quickly and before you know it...here we are...and though we spent some time texting and a call here and there...still I didn't make the trip to see you...and I think of if I had...what would we have talked of?    I think of how God sent a couple angels in those last days...strong women who were such a blessing to be there with you!   I think of you now free from the confines of a chair that held you for so many years.    A bittersweet...but I feel you a Believer in Jesus...and you went on running and jumping to Heaven!   

So I think of you not just today the day you were born...but I think of your life and how thankful that I am for you my cousin...my friend...at times my big brother!   Thank you!  Love you Randy!!!