The passing of a good friend...

(photo from Google.com)

Yesterday I received a phone call telling me that our friend Danny passed away.
(click on Danny to see our recent reunion)

He had suffered from Lou Gehrigs' disease for about two and a half years.


My heart aches for his family.

He was a wonderful husband and father.
He spent many years serving as a police officer and was active in boy scouts.

I find comfort in these words:
"Since the creation of man, no fact of life has been so certain as death with the close of mortality. When the last of life's breath is drawn, there is a finality comparable to no other finality....Life is sacred, and death is somber. Life is buoyant and hopeful. Death is solemn and dark. It is awesome in its silence and certainty.... But death is not final. Though it seems so when its dark shroud overshadows mortal life, to those who accept the Christ and His eternal mission there is light and comfort, there is assurance, there is certainty."
-Gordon B. Hinckley

"Death is a mere comma, not an exclamation point."
-Neal A. Maxwell

"Death, though bitter to observe, is not the end, but is, rather, only another graduation from which we go on to a better life."
-Gordon B. Hinckley

Danny will always be remembered as a fun loving person (click here to read more)
with a cheerful attitude.
He loved life and everyone loved him!



(photo from Google.com)
Thank goodness we believe that life is eternal!