Sunt lacrimae rerum

   This is constantly happening to me. Im driving along listening to the Ipod on shuffle, when a song will come on I’ve heard a dozen times or more, but this time it becomes something totally different to me. It makes me think of someone or sometime, and then bam, that song is forever changed for me. It was this song today.

   Now this song could mean alot of things to different people, but when I listened to it today, it took me back to one person and one time. This is probably the single most influencial person that has ever come into my life, and I haven’t seen him since I was 10. This was a man among men, so much so that I seriously considered not writing this, for fear of not doing him justice. I’m sure there is someone out there who knew him longer than I did, and would say I’m romanticizing him or he was just a good guy. But that doesn’t matter, because he was huge to me. For the 10 years I had the opportunity of knowing him, he showed me the best example of how “Christ-like” a regular person could be, and I believe this is in integral part of understanding Christ’s love. Seeing an example of it in a personal, tangible way. I pray for his peace, his since of humor, his patience. I strive to be the husband and father he was.

   Luckily he is not completely gone from my life. I get to see little parts of him all the time through other people he touched. Like this person’s creativeness and love for God.

Here is a great example of how he shared those two things.

~ by foxfire451 on October 29, 2008.