What do you do the day after your loving spouse of almost 40 years leaves this earth for eternity? Good Question! I’m not sure I really know the answer to  that one. As for me and my house… I took Jonathan and Carol to the airport to fly back to Columbus, Ohio on separate flights. Jonathan had a long layover in Minneapolis, so he connected with some friends and visited the grave site of his Grandfather Loopstra. He left a picture of Marilou and a piece from a prayer scarf that Carol took as a memento.

After dropping them at the airport, Jodan (our adopted daughter) headed to Seattle to have breakfast with Esther and Tony and hang out for a while.
Then I came back home, washed the sheets and cleaned the frig.

I have to tell you a little story that I think is just a token of God’s loving care for us. —- The first day that we came here to look at this house together… it was the very first day it was even on the market, I walked over to the dining room window, and there, was a hummingbird feeding in the bush right outside the window.
Yesterday… right after Marilou went to be with her Jesus, I walked downstairs, and looked out the dining room window, and there in that bush, was a hummingbird.  At least to me, our precious Father was telling me that, yes, He is watching out for us.

What do you two days after your loving spouse of almost 40 years leaves to be with Jesus? I’m not really sure, but I know Jesus and I will do it together.

We have set September 24th as the day of her Memorial Celebration. It’s Jonathan’s birthday. After talking it over, he is really ok with that and feels it would be so appropriate to celebrate her eternal life on the day she brought him into the world.

How can I express my utmost thanks to all of your for your prayers and kind, loving comments here. I read them all to Marilou before she left, and my heart is full of gratitude for each post you have left, and each prayer that is prayed. It seems so inadequate, but THANKS!!!