Jan 202011
 

The rubber band gang and I kidnapped a dear friend the other day for a night out.

We call ourselves the rubber band gang because we have  all been stretched in so many different ways, but our friendship and bond never breaks. This is the group of girls that I have spoken of before that God knew what he was doing when he placed us together years ago.

Ones grieves a suicide in the family.

One raises the most awesome little guy who happened to have spina bifida. He had surgery right after being born.

One had cancer. HAD. She’s got some great new ta-ta’s if I do say so myself.

One’s family was affected by Katrina.

One is struggling right now as her husband who was in ICU for 52 days learns how to live newly blind and with short term memory loss.

So…we walked into the coffee shop and there was a couple sitting on the couches we wanted. As we started to head towards the table, I looked around and realized , “Hey! We could totally pull one of our cards here! Which one shall we choose? Widow, cancer, blindness?” Oh, the dark humor of those hurting…i love it!

 Posted by at 6:56 pm
Jan 112011
 

A snowy night finally pushed me to start organizing and placing HeeJun’s items in the memory chest.

It was an emotional experience.

The beginning

His gloves still shaped like his hand.Wu Tang and Randy Travis. What a nut!

The shirts I kept hanging in the closet and couldn’t take down until yesterday.

His Walmart shirt that he loved.

I found this letter I wrote HeeJun. Ouch, my heart. I don’t remember writing it. Did I steal it from a book? I don’t remember. I wish I had read it more when he was with me.

“To my prince,

I promise to love you with my whole heart; to give and to share with you all I have. I promise to be more ashamed by breaking your heart than breaking the rules of our relationship. I promise to strive to never do either. I promise to wake up every morning excited about another day I get to spend in love with you; to make you breakfast, to wash your socks, to hold you while you sleep. I promise to take care of you when you are sick and to play with you when you have energy. I promise to fully support you with all decisions in your life; to encourage you towards Christ-like decisions and to support them. I promise to respect your privacy and to understand how important it is for you to have your time to play games. But I promise to desire to know the details of your life. Most importantly, I promise to encourage you VASTLY towards Christ; to love seeing Jesus in you; to grow closer to you only through knowing Jesus, only through lavishing in His love and His grace in our love.  I promise to focus my eyes and my heart on Christ’s will and desires for me so I can be the incredible and amazing wife only you deserve.

With all my love,

Erica

 Posted by at 7:53 pm