DIANE BLACKWELL Memoriam

DIANE, MOM AND NONI, I CAN'T BELIEVE YOUR GONE. HOW I MISS YOU. IT DOESN'T SEEM RIGHT WITHOUT YOU HERE, I THINK OF YOU EVERYDAY...EVERYDAY JUST HOPING TO WAKE UP AS IF THIS PAST YEAR HAS BEEN A BAD DREAM...HOPING TO WAKE UP TO FIND YOU SITTING IN YOUR CHAIR. DIANE I LOVE YOU MORE THAN YOU WILL EVER KNOW. I MISS YOU DEARLY. WHERE DO WE START, ITS BEEN ONE YEAR TODAY, A YEAR WITHOUT YOU, THAT OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST MIRACULOUSLY GRANTED YOU THE CURE THAT YOU SAID WOULD HAPPEN. EVERYDAY IS FILLED WITH TEARS AND EMPTINESS THAT WILL NEVER GO AWAY. WE CANNOT BEGIN TO EXPRESS THE LOSS, THE PIECE OF US THAT DIED WITH YOU, THE DAY YOU MADE YOUR FINAL JOURNEY TO LIVE A PAIN FREE LIFE WITH OUR HEAVENLY FATHER. EVERYDAY IS FILLED WITH MEMORIES AND TEARS OF PAIN THAT CONTINUE TO FLOW, BUT YET THE JOY OF HAPPINESS KNOWING YOU ARE NO LONGER SUFFERING. WE ALL HAVE TRIED TO IMAGINE WHAT YOU WERE GOING THROUGH THE PAIN YOU KEPT INSIDE WITHOUT EVER SAYING A WORD, THE BURDEN THAT YOU THOUGHT YOU PUT UPON US, AND YET WE WERE THE BURDEN, DEPENDING UPON YOU TO BE HERE EACH AND EVERY DAY. THE ONE RULE OF LIFE YOU ALWAYS TAUGHT US WAS NEVER TO GIVE UP, GO FULL SPEED AHEAD, THIS LAST YEAR HAS BEEN DIFFICULT TO GO FULL SPEED AHEAD WITHOUT YOU HERE TELLING US WHAT DIRECTION TO GO. WE HOPE YOU'RE AS PROUD OF US TODAY, AS YOU ALWAYS HAVE BEEN,.. NOT A SECOND OF ANY GIVEN DAY GOES BY THAT WE DON'T THINK OF HOW MUCH WE ALL LOVE AND MISS YOU. CONTINUE TO TAKE CARE OF US FROM HEAVEN AS YOU DID ON EARTH.. LOVE, HOMER, DENNIS (LYNETTE), JANICE (JOHN), STEVIE, BRITNEY, TAYLOR AND TREVOR