Our Journey Begins...: Easter Blessings.

We hope you all had a wonderful Easter weekend.

Chase and I were lucky enough to have Grammy and Papa come visit us this weekend, and we had so much fun. The weather was perfect, Grammy and I dusted off the lounge chairs and soaked up the sun for a couple hours on Saturday while Chase was napping. Between sun, dinner at Pier 77, a beautiful church service, a couple of 3 mile runs and a visit to Daddy's grave, I'd say it was the perfect Spring weekend!

I loved Jan's service today, it was of course how Christ has risen but it really got me thinking and Easter reminded me that just because someone is not here physically, does not mean they are not here at all. Those who have gone before us are indeed with us, but in another form. When we look, even though we don't see their physical body, we can see them in other forms and we can feel their presence when we want to. . Christ is everywhere, he is love, joy, light, he is everything good in this world. As I visited Alec's grave tonight, I know he is not there. I don't really go there to see or talk to him, I go to make sure things are in order and we always add the appropriate flower, just so I know it looks nice. Alec is everywhere and always with me. He runs with me in the morning, in fact this is when I feel him the most. I know he told me to "stop running and do yoga" (through the medium) but it is the 30 minutes in my day where I feel most connected to him (and besides Millie needs the exercise and I am pretty sure she wouldn't like yoga). When I turn down the road to the beach I get this sense that he is there and it is then when I talk to him and feel him the most...not as I sit by his grave. I feel him when I am walking through the woods, and I know he is there when we are on his boat. I see him in Chase, I see him through stars, through sunsets, and through his friends and family and every life that he touched. Today I was reminded of this poem I once read, and I had to go home and find it because it is so true.

Do not stand at my grave and weep,
I am not there; I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond glints on snow,
I am the sun on ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning’s hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circling flight.
I am the soft starlight at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry,
I am not there; I did not die.

-Mary Frye

With the warmer weather finally here (warmer as in 50ish) we are spending even more time outside. Chase is obsessed with being outside, he won't even come in for dinner, I have to pick him up as he screams and then heads back to the door pointing and yelling "outdide!" He loves running up and down a little hill in the back yard, over and over. Then he will occasionally help me with yard work...picking up a leaf here and there saying "help Mumma". By the end of the day he looks like your typical boy, grass stains on his knees, dirt in his finger nails and just plain grubby (although I usually look the same way now that I think of it!). He takes a tub each night and after we go to "cuggle" on the couch to watch his John Deere tractor DVD for the 700th time. Oh how I love, love, love this age! He has started to recite the alphabet and can count now to 10! I am one proud Mommy and I know his Daddy is too!

On this Easter evening I am grateful for my beautiful life. For my Faith, for the love that I had and continue to have with my husband, my perfect little boy, my family, friends, my dog, and this gorgeous place I get to call home. I am truly so blessed and fortunate, God is so good. Enjoy all that Spring has to offer...the sun, the flowers, the longer days, every day is such a splendid gift and cherish them all. Love,

Heather, Chase and Millie