Last night I went to the viewing and funeral of Patricia, Caroline, and Anthony Bigger. The saddest funeral I have ever been to! And I've been to alot, including my dad's, nanny barr, and several of my uncles, But never to a mother and her children.
I promised myself I would not cry because when I start crying, its very hard for me to stop. And for the first part of the funeral I placed a couple teardrops, but when they showed the video remembrance of Caroline and Anthony, I lost it. I cried and cried. The video was taken just 3 weeks ago at Christmas time. Caroline sang a beautiful solo of "Here I am to worship" in her little angel costume and Anthony was a little shepherd. Its very sad to think how fast life can change.
On our way back home we stopped at Little Caesars for some pizza. After a service like that, I wasn't very hungry. I just kept thinking to myself, Why would God take away such a beautiful, christian family? Why would He take them away from Brent? But as I thought of the song that was played at the funeral, "My Redeemer is faithful and true" I had to remind myself that God knows what He's doing, Even if we don't. We just have to place our trust in Him.
Caroline and Anthony's casket had a few of their favorite toys in it. A beautiful doll with long, brown hair, A teddy bear, Woody and buzz lightyear. My heart aches deeply for Brent. Theres something physically painful when your see someone you love in a casket, in this case 3 people you love. I asked Mom on the way home "How is Brent going to go on?" I mean yes, they were a Christian family, yes, they're in heaven and he will see them some day, but they were his life. Its going to make his life on earth a whole lot harder without them here. All of a sudden theres a quite, empty house. No sounds of laughter in the air, when he rolls over in bed, she won't be there. I grieve for Brent, And we should all continue to pray for him during these times! I know one thing, I am not going to take my family for granted!
My thoughts
Our youth pastor and wife took our youth group to Boone to go snow tubing. When we got there the man said it was 12 degrees! Brrr... I could've used some more layers! Besides being freezing, It was a really good day! Here are some pictures to prove it...
Tiffany getting ready to go down the hill..!
Random Tubers!
