tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7035205506073110601.post1108356367959828590..comments2021-02-22T20:58:56.200-08:00Comments on Remembering Joey ...: PerspectiveUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7035205506073110601.post-64774820784973239122008-07-02T02:10:00.000-07:002008-07-02T02:10:00.000-07:00Liza Pierce - you have such a gift girlfriend. You...Liza Pierce - you have such a gift girlfriend. You and your blogging thing you do, just ministers to us and constantly points us back to the Father, in whom is our hope. It's essential that you do that, because otherwise we may get stuck in our grief, and that is the stuff tragedies are made of. But we are not without hope. <BR/><BR/>Joe and Karen, we are all grieving with you, and we will be for some time. The tears just come any ole time, sometimes in the middle of the day. Around the office, we are all so transparent, as you know. No one asks me questions when they come into my office and I am sniffling and teary-eyed. We all just know that we all are grieving. And the grief - it comes in waves. Oh, we get our work done somehow (okay...not all of it, and not very fast), but always in the back of our mind is a new awareness to not sweat the small stuff, to hug more, love more, give more, be kinder, appreciate more... <BR/><BR/>Sometimes I wonder, "how does life just go on after such a loss?" And then I realize that, for those of us who knew Joey or know you guys, our lives aren't just going on anymore. I think we are all changed as we realize just how short and precious our time with our loved ones is.<BR/><BR/>Love,<BR/>Lisa BryantLisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04728819177404208922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7035205506073110601.post-4786967292944470682008-07-01T22:14:00.000-07:002008-07-01T22:14:00.000-07:00Thank you Joe and Karen. I, too, have always wonde...Thank you Joe and Karen. I, too, have always wondered how people make it through life--and loss of life--without God. It seems that it would be impossible.<BR/><BR/>Love you very much,<BR/><BR/>TrishAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09606586056714775668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7035205506073110601.post-13460806044870930962008-07-01T13:59:00.000-07:002008-07-01T13:59:00.000-07:00That was a beauty Liza. I feel like God has been s...That was a beauty Liza. I feel like God has been speaking me about that these past couple of days. Life is about loss, because we live in a dying world. We cover it up with our wealth, but really all of us are doomed to lose some very important things in this life. <BR/><BR/>We have lost our beautiful, amazing son...it is a deep grief for us. One we cannot escape. Our comfort is that there is a new world and a new life ahead. As long as we focus on that, we can bear the sorrow of this world. As we sit with the Lord, pour out our pain and know that He suffered too, and He suffered to redeem us from this fallen world, we get peace. <BR/><BR/>Our only place of peace is in Christ and in the thought of eternity. Thank God we have a place of peace...how do others make it without that? Thank you Lord for comforting us in our sorrow. You are our Mighty God thru the valley of the shadow of death.Karenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14519140951660677172noreply@blogger.com