I have been thinking alot about old times lately....

I guess that happens when you lose someone you love....

As many of you already know, our best friend Jeremy Nelson recently passed away after a long struggle with leukemia on May 4th/2006 at 4PM.....

He died the way he lived....walking in faith.....

He was at home surrounded by family and a few close friends, and was still making people laugh and praising God right up to the time when he became unconcious...

What a testimony...

I can only hope that when my time comes someday, I can face it with the same remarkable bravery and strength of character....

Things have been a little difficult on the friend front the last couple of years...

Shortly after we moved here, our friend Mike Lawry passed away. A couple of years previous after I had sang somewhere, he had said to me that when he died he wanted me to come and sing at his funeral.....I got mad at him for being morbid, but then two years later.....we were off to Williams Lake for his funeral.

Last year our friend Josh Wolbers died of a heart attack at age 30......We couldn't go to the funeral and that was hard.

Mike Young, a local pastor we cared about also died of leukemia....

and since we moved to Regina, there has also been people here....

It has made me think alot.

I now try to spend as much time as possible with my family and friends...and to heck with things like housework...(and you should see my house somedays....

I have never been good at letting people know how i feel, but i am working on that....

The truth is that none of us know how long we have here...and we could be gone tomorrow...

The Bible says our lives are but a shadow....

and I don't want the people I care about to not know how I feel....or leave things unsaid.

I am also profoundly thankful that I will see the people who have gone on ahead of me again someday....

Jeremy my friend, We love you and miss you.....

Kendal, Robyn and girls....