Emma Renee

Today marks the 4th anniversary of our Emma joining Jesus in Heaven. We could tell you how sad each day is but instead we will write about how much joy Emma brings us. We talk to Emma each and every day. She continues to do great things in our life every day. Thad and the new baby will grow up knowing about their big sister. Thinking about each day we had with her here makes us smile. Life is a gift and we treasure every moment we have.

Love you Emma.

I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength. I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other.

Then someone at my side says: "There, she is gone!"

"Gone where?"

Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side and she is just as able to bear her load of living freight to her destined port.

Her diminished size is in me, not in her. And just at the moment when someone at my side says: "There, she is gone!" there are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices ready to take up the glad shout: 'Here she comes!"

Henry Van Dyke