Rerun of an early blog for your enjoyment.

Blog 3 – 4.9.15
Mike was a handsome young man barely eighteen years old when he died in a tragic car crash. I saw a picture of his mother Kathy on Facebook this morning and I thought of the words Mike’s dad said to me at my father’s funeral. Bud said losing a child is the hardest loss of all. Three years ago this July I lost my beloved daughter Emily and Bud was right. You see parents are not supposed to out live their children, but it happens all too often.
I knew Mike all his eighteen years and he was a wild child. He loved teasing my dad. I was a shy, timid little boy but I always wanted to be more like Mike. Mike enjoyed life and he lived more of it in his eighteen years than many do in sixty.
One of my favorite movies, Unfinished Life starring Robert Redford, Jennifer Lopez, and Morgan Freeman, deals with the struggle of a father to come to terms with the death of his son. I recommend that movie to anyone who has lost a child. Nothing is ever truly lost.
Mike touched my life. I can still see his mischievous smile as a child and his handsome face as a young adult. His story, our story is not finished. I have written a book about my daughter to share her with others. Like Mike she shined brightly but briefly in our dream but I think those two stars will shine forever. From time to time I will quote portions of the Ten Intentions for a Better World. The last phrase of the First Intent says:
I see life in all things
And honor it as if it were my own.
I saw Life in Mike and Emily. I got a glimpse of the divine. Like the pilot did in the poem High Flight, perhaps you have seen the U. S. Air Force TV spot with a soaring jet and voice over:
Oh, I have slipped the surly
bonds of earth and danced the
skies in laughter slivered wings…
And hovering there put out my
hand an touched the face if God.

I have seen the face of God many times but never more clearly than in Mike’s face and Emily’s. Look carefully in the eyes of those you love and let me know, do you see the God Spark shining out of those eyes?
Your friend and fellow traveler,

David White