Today is Ben’s birthday. He would be 25 today. I don’t seem to have moved very far in my thoughts and feelings. “Why? How can it be? Surely it didn’t happen. Surely God had a better idea than this. Can’t he come back now?” Those questions and many more of a similar sort beat in my brain over and over.
It's good that we don’t know what’s going to happen in the future. I’m glad I still can’t see the future. I’m glad I only have to keep putting one foot in front of the other. I’m grateful for lovely things that keep happening despite pain and loss. I’m glad, so glad we had Ben for all those years.
There are so many memories to make us smile. The ratbag and the contrite, the testosterone charged and the cat lover, "The Backstreet Boys” and "Green Day”, “Nightwish” and “The Corrs”, the super-energetic and the “curl up in a corner with a good book”, roller-hockey and swimming, water-skiing, snow-skiing, friends, fun, food, laughter and serious convictions and commitments all grounded in belief and faith.
We’ll celebrate your birthday with thankfulness for the 23 we had with you.
Lindy
4 comments:
It's 'chicken townhouse' tonight. We're happy Ben was born and thankful we knew him. Marc&Malvina
Happy Birthday Ben.
Feliz cumpleaños Benjamín.
Feliz cumple Ben!!! recuerdo esas tardes, en sus primeros años en Tucuman, en que tu viejo me hacia laburar (gracis Chris!) Una que nunca olvidare fue cortando el pasto (por no decir los yuyos!!!) nos pusimos a jugar al futbol y me querias mostrar lo bien que atajabas, esa tarde te pelaste toda la rodilla jejeje...
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