One Year

February 1, 2021

The saddest day…

Randy passed on this day in 2021. Such a relief from the pain and struggles his body had been enduring those past weeks. Such joy to leave his body and be free.

Will I relive the shock? Or the rage when God upended our lives and dared take Randy away? No. I choose to remember Randy’s last year, 2020; a good year, planned by God, a farewell tour. God is good.

Covid entered our world in 2020 and with it, so many changes to all of our lives. Randy chose to LIVE, and thus he kept working and traveling via road trips. Road trips that gave us two so much time for the knitting of our souls. Road trips that brought Randy so much reminiscing of his life. We visited his beloved spots and his beloved family, all the while sharing stories from his past. Looking back I see how God mapped the year for us, preparing Randy for his death… a finer last year could not have been conceived. God is good.

Randy lost his sister to cancer in April 2020, and this loss spurred many reflections on life, and death. Death became real for Randy, in that he acknowledged that he was going to die. A facing of reality, not morbidity, entered his being and the work of preparation began.

At times I complained, why all this talk of your past? But now looking back, I understand. Thank you God for the good final year you gave Randy. Thank you God for letting me share in that year with him. God is good.

And now as I continue to walk this earth, may I remember that God has this walk all mapped out. May I trust… God is good.

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