MEMORIES, OLD AND NEW: PRECIOUS MEMORIES OF SO LONG AGO

PRECIOUS MEMORIES, OF SO LONG AGO

MEET MICHAEL, OUR FOSTER SON!

HERE HE WAS 15 MONTHS OLD, taken just a few days before they took him to his adoptive parents (away from here). We had full hopes and a few promises that we could and would be his adoptive parents. We were going to name him Michael Brandon and our last name. But then due to some circumstance (we had nothing to do with, nor any control of) he was taken from us to keep his birth mom from whatever she had threatened the guy over him at the SSD. He told me that "he had to take him away from here, to show her, and to keep her from him! " Needless to say how sad that made us, but then he will always be in our hearts and our memories as long as the Lord's willing. And we will see him again, and boy do I have a hug for him. He was an absolutely precious child, and fit right in with our own three boys. He was just one of us in every way that counted. Only we had no control, and weren't blessed with him on a full time basis. He lived with us from just over 6 weeks until just after he was 15 months old.

His birth Grandma told us many years later that they had been told that he passed away just before his 8th birthday, and that he had been fighting MS most of his life. She added that they were also told that he had been in a wheel chair for many years. We were surprised because he showed no signs of it when he was with us. God has His reasons, and many we will never know, and were never meant to know... We just have to trust Him. But then that means he's been in heaven for many years now. What a place to grow up in! So, we'll see him again, on the other side, and boy do I want to hear about his life, and his heavenly life. We still love him so much!

Anyway, today would have been his 29th. birthday! Wow, that's hard to believe. So many memories are still so fresh in our minds. God bless!

Some Call It Heaven 'Mike' Calls It Home

John 14:2"In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so,

I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you."

Some call it Heaven, 'Mike' calls it home.

Some call it dreaming, let me dream on.
Somewhere beyond the grave there is a land

Where Jesus went to prepare by His own hand.

And for the Saved by grace, there is a resting place

And in a few more years it will be mine.

Some call it Heaven, 'Mike' calls it home.

Some call it dreaming, let me dream on.

Some call it Paradise, somewhere beyond the skies.