Thankful Thursday!

I know this is a few days late but I would really like to touch on the spiritual experience Josh and I were blessed with. Thursday morning we attended the viewing and funeral of Braden Howe.

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/deseretnews/obituary.aspx?n=braden-howe&pid=151096568

Josh has been friends with the Howe family for years, and sense I have been a part of his life I consider them to be friends of mine also. I have spent enough time with them to know that they are genuinely good people. Though death rarely causes happy feelings, the spirit we felt with family and friends of the Howe family was extraordinary. Everyone who spoke at the funeral said such nice things about Braden that really made me miss him. The wife of his brothers friend, what right do I have to miss him? Here is my justification; Braden was a Child of God, just like me. I feel that gives me the right to mourn the loss of a good person, and to celebrate his happiness. He is now with our Father in Heaven and Savior Jesus Christ, and without his handicap as a quadriplegic. I know now that he is truly comfortable, happy, and without pain.

And that makes me happy.