We all live in a peculiar time. Two hundred years ago news might have taken weeks or even months to travel what we would now consider a short distance. News of the death of someone you knew might not get to you for quite awhile. I have been praying for a former coworker who was involved in a horrible head on collision last week, but found out yesterday that he passed away at a little past 12:30. He was fifty-four and such a nice guy. I’ve been retired for going on three years but I can still hear his laughter. I, like everyone else, am in shock, and I now have something else that I can add to my “I wish” list.

We will remain friends on Facebook, and that brings my Facebook list of people that I care about but are now in Heaven up to two. It is a very odd thing this list of deceased family and friends, and I’m quite sure someday that there will be a term for it, but Sharon and now David, are frozen in time. You never know what is just around the corner and fifty-four is way too young to be gone, but I plan on seeing them both again someday. However, for now, there is only sadness.

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