God is good and it was wonderful to celebrate the life of our friend, Chris Cardwell, today with many friends and family members!  I had the privilege to talk with his mom several times throughout the last few days and I have been blessed at the way God has been showing her comfort in very specific and personal ways throughout these hard days of grief!  Chris worked as a steerman on a ship and would be gone for a month and then back for two weeks for his job and he had very close friends on the ship because he basically lived with them during those months on the job.  One of his buddies had this picture painted for him when he was diagnosed with leukemia.  His friend was able to connect with his mom this last week and found out one of the things she always treasured from Chris was that while he was away for his job he would send her beautiful pictures of sunsets from the ship.  His friend has determine to keep doing this for her :)  I just thought that was incredible sweet!.....Really, isn't God's LOVE amazing!!!

The River

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rUzmjTmSBU

I understand why she loved these so much!