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Earl Silas Memoriam

My Father/My Hero: On this Sunday morning, two days later it shall be, one year since I've seen your clairvoyant sparkling eyes. I continue, father catching myself, to pick up the phone to call you about current events, football, or just a nice father/daughter chat. You, through faith, subdued and quenched diabetes the violence of diabetes. My hero - you went to your permanent home in heaven. God had different plans for you there - something incredible was being produced for you in heaven. Father, you taught me that my mind is the birthplace..the incubator..…the beginning point of everything that I shall do on my journey here. When my heart is on the line, in the most painful circumstances, I choose to continue pressing forward. I shall continue to allow the light of Jesus within me to radiate his image through me. What oxygen is to the lungs, that's what you will continue to mean to me. Sparkles in your Eyes, Ms.Geneva D. Silas 1 Peter 1:6

To plant trees in memory, please visit the Sympathy Store.

Published by The Gazette on Dec. 20, 2009.

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