Has it really been a year?

(Friday, August 11, 2000)

A year, well not quite, but almost.

Eva and Ray both died on the same day,

I think of you often,

I still can't believe you've gone away.

Faith, Charity, Grant, and Chrissy

Seem to be okay.

I can't tell for sure because they

Live so far away.

Eva, I talk to Faith often,

She has the maddening habit of saying

when asked how things are going,

"Same old same old" Whatever that means. 

I know that something must have gone terribly wrong.

Ray was too good of driver to be going 75 MPH that night.

When the truck veered off the road,

You both must have been frightened.

I don't know how to come to terms with your deaths.

Help me Lord to trust in you/

If I can only let go Lord,

And let you do the rest.

I want to help Eva's children, but I don't know how.

Help me find a way to help them and myself

Cope with this loss.

I only pray that Mom was there to take you home little Sis.