Ive spent most of the morning down in the dumps. Learning about Michael Rices death was a complete shock to my system. I have been reading recent Facebook messages between him and myself. I went to dinner with he and his wife a few weeks back---and it was the first time we had hung out in a long time. The shared grief we had from losing Luke made it hard to spend time with each other. While my mom and sister and I share the same grief, for me, being around Mike was different. When I looked at him, I saw Luke. And he told me the same was true for him when he looked at me. In December, the night of the Parade of Lights, he messaged me saying he had been dusting off a picture frame, with his tablet nearby, powered off and not logged into Facebook...and he suddenly heard me and Leah talking to each other. He looked down and his tablet was powered on and it was a Facebook video I had posted of the tree lighting. He said he took it as a sign that we needed to get together. So we did! And, man am I ever grateful that we did. He shared some awesome stuff with me that night. I have decided to try.....to not be so blue. I can promise you that hes not! Hes home. And Im crazy enough to believe that he, like my brother, is still around in ways we cant comprehend. My heart bleeds for his family. It takes so much time for life to even remotely resemble normal again after such a loss. Im imagining Michael and Luke having a two-day headstart to conspire on April Foolin people.
Posted on: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 18:02:19 +0000
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