This was not originally going to be my first post but this week has been a very long emotional week. This was my big birthday week and had originally planned on sharing some of the things I have challenged myself over the next year and hopefully the rest of my life. This plan changed on Wednesday.
Wednesday morning as I was getting ready for work, the Today show was on like it is every morning. The local news comes on at intervals during the program for a few minutes to give you the headlines and the weather. One of the headlines was "Lubbock man killed in Castro County on a hunting trip". At that point the worrier I am, I start going through thinking of anyone that I knew that was going hunting and where they were going. Most people I knew were going the other directions South and East of Lubbock, no one I could thing of was going to the North West. Still that feeling of something is wrong would not go away.
A few hours later I got the news that a classmate that I had gone to school with from Elementary to graduation had passed away. He was the man in Castro County. He was an avid hunter and even led guided hunts. The details are still under investigation, but from what they are saying he was murdered by the two guys with them, after they felt threatened.
It is one of those things that you may have not seen a person for years but when they have been in your life for so many years before you still feel the loss. Maybe you don't feel the loss personally but more for the family of the one that is gone. My first thoughts were for his family because I remembered how close they were in the past, and also for his young daughter that will never truly know her earthly father.
So again this year it was a time to mourn a young life cut short. This summer a song came out that expresses about dying young. So for Jared Kelley, Matt Stanley, Casey Shakespeare and Emily Mulkey the sharp knife of a short life came too soon but I know you are in the best place you can be... you are Home with your Father.
A time to dance:
Friday the 12th, I turned the big 3-0... And boy did we celebrate! I have some of the greatest friends and family that went out of their way to make this birthday weekend special! I will blog about the details later, once I have all the pictures downloaded and can share those.
Also I am trying not to make my post too long, because I know that I have a hard time staying with one thing that I can not expect someone else to do the same. Thanks for stopping by and I promise that most of my post will be more up beat in the future, so continue checking back!
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