Tribute to Danielle and David

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Tribute to Danielle and David

December 14, 2001

Today marks the date that Danielle & David went home to be with the Lord. It's been a hard year for the three of us. We've had many days of tears but also days of joy remembering special things about Dani & David.

Danielle would have been 25 this month and David would be 20 now.

There are times It feel like we are in a nightmare and we desperately want to get up and find things back to normal. I don't understand why God needed them so much because I feel like I needed them more. I know God would never do anything to harm me. He's been with us from the beginning holding us in His arms and I know He will continue to hold us until our time comes to go home.

I think of all Dani & David have experienced this past year. They have the pleasure of seeing and talking with Jesus each day! They both have seen their grandpa Brown for the very first time! David has finally gotten to meet his grandma Pruitt that Dani & Ronnie talked so much about to him. The Pastor who dedicated them to the Lord was there to meet them! They have truly had the time of their lifes this year! I couldn't call them away from the splendor they are enjoying. I keep thinking of all they've seen and heard! I remember haw many times I've showed them new things-- how many times I've explained things to them. How wise they thought we were to know so much more than they did! But now-- they will be the ones to show us around heaven, explain things we don't know! Oh, what a joyful time we will all have!

We miss them more than words could ever say! No one, unless they've walked in our shoes, knows the pain & the lost we bear each day! We go on with the help and grace of God. We go on because that's the way the kids would want it. I know the joy they are walking in and if they were permitted to see us and saw the pain or that (God forbid) we had given up-- it would be too much for them to bear.

So we trod on for the Lord because there is truly more to go to heaven for than ever before. We go on because there is an expected end that the Lord has prepared for us.

We will always miss the kids and we will always carry them in our hearts. We will never forget hearing Dani sing specials in Church and her love of music. We will never forget hearing David preach his first & only sermon a month before his death. We will never forget the way they loved their older brother Ronnie who is mentally handicapped and how they watched out for him. Our house is not the same-- there are two empty spaces that no one or no thing will ever replace. We just thank God we had what time we did with them. They were both such a joy to us and we will always be so proud of them.