Happy Birthday!

Happy 1st Birthday in Heaven to the best little brother a girl could have!
 I love and miss you Johnny Hyatt!! Mollee misses you too!!

Changed, forever more!!

I have come to understand that losing someone you love so dearly changes you in so many ways! Our lives have changed, our family relationships have changed, our dreams have changed, the things we look forward to in life have changed, what we desire in life has changed, we have been changed forever. I thought it was others that had changed and did not see or feel our pain, always dissapointed in them, yet, it was only us that had changed! God changed us all that day, the Woodle family is now different in so many ways! It reminds me of when Ron and I came to know the Lord Jesus as our Saviour, He changed us, instantly! Because of the changes in us, people we had always known no longer knew how to relate to us, our entire life had changed! WOW there is so much freedom in knowing it is not anyone's fault, not a lack of compassion or love from people we know! God has just changed us once again! Part of us is now gone, we are no longer complete! We are the ones who are different! Oh how sweet Heaven is, even sweeter when part of you it there and no longer with you here! It makes you long to be there even more! So if we seem different to you, it is because we are! Have you ever experienced this? Wondering what is wrong with others? Maybe God has changed you! He brings you closer to Him, the closer you get to God the more changed you are! You have a stronger fellowship with the God Who holds your loved one! The One Who loves our Tyler even more than we do! I can live with this change and I pray you will live well with the changes He brings into your lives, they are for your good and His glory!!  Hooyah Tyler Woodle! I sure do love and miss you son! I am forever changed! love,Mom :)

These words from Mercy Me, say everything!!


Why?
The question that is never far away
The healing doesn't come from the explained
Jesus please don't let this go in vain
You're all I have
All that remains

So here I am
What's left of me
Where glory meets my suffering

I'm alive
Even though a part of me has died
You take my heart and breathe it back to life
I've fallen into Your arms open wide
When the hurt and the healer collide

Breathe
Sometimes I feel it's all that I can do
Pain so deep that I can hardly move
Just keep my eyes completely fixed on You
Lord take hold and pull me through

So here I am
What's left of me
Where glory meets my suffering

I'm alive
Even though a part of me has died
You take my heart and breathe it back to life
I've fallen into your arms open wide
When the hurt and the healer collide

It's the moment when humanity
Is overcome by majesty
When grace is ushered in for good
And all the scars are understood
When mercy takes its rightful place
And all these questions fade away
When out of the weakness we must bow
And hear You say "It's over now"

I'm alive
Even though a part of me has died
You take my heart and breathe it back to life
I've fallen into your arms open wide
When The hurt and the healer collide

Jesus come and break my fear
Awake my heart and take my tears
Find Your glory even here
When the hurt and the healer collide [x2]

Jesus come and break my fear
Awake my heart and take my tears
Find Your glory even here


Read the words to this song and you will understand even more.......

Memorial Day 2012

Ron, my mom, and myself bravely went to our town's Memorial Day Parade yesterday. We saw the old soldiers and thought of the parade in 2008 when my 86 year Daddy marched his last Army march at the end of the parade. He passed away in July of that year. Memories! We saw the young men and women in their uniforms for various branches of the military. We heard a 92 year old retired Brigadeer General speak of his service and our great country. We saw WW2 Jeeps diven, bands playing, people of all ages and genders waving the American Flag! Proud Americans! It was so hard emotionally, especially when a young man in his dress Navy whites walked by us! Oh Tyler, we miss you so much!  We went from there to take some flags to Tyler and my dad's gravesites. My mom had bought a Navy flag for Tyler and an Army flag for my dad. So hard! We were so surprised to find a big boquet of fresh flowers with a flag in it on Tyler's grave. They were from his dearest friend Jarad K. and his family! What a sweet blessing to see flowers and a note to our Tyler from someone who really cared for him and misses our Tyler as well!! Thank you for his flowers, your love for him and your constant support for us!! HOOYAH ! our prayers are with you, all our love as well!   Hard days with lots of sweet blessings from our Lord Jesus all along the way!

2012 another Mother's Day

Well another Mother's Day is here, the weather is supposed to be beautiful here in the mountains! I know that there are lots of Mothers out there who have lost children and struggle with Mother's Day and all holidays as I do. The waves of grief and sadness just keep on coming even though it has been over 2 years now. Broken hearts never really heal, but they do grow stronger. Some moms have had many more years to grieve and some are just beginning this journey, but we are all so very blessed to have had our precious children in our lives. Whether they left this world at 2, at 20, at 26 or at 56 and so on, we are blessed to be their Mothers! Life is a hard road with many beautiful blessings along the way! I pray for you all that you would find the peace that God has for you and His comfort this Mother's Day! I am part of a very special group of Mothers that I want to pray extra hard for this Mother's Day in 2012, the "Gold Star Moms" these are the Moms who have lost a son or daughter in military service. May God bless you with grace, peace and wonderful memories this Mother's Day! HOOYAH Tyler Woodle! There are also some Moms that are dear to me who have also lost sons, my Mama lost her youngest son just 56 years old, my little brother and best buddy, Johnny, in October of 2011. This is an especially hard Mother's Day for her. God bless you Mama, you are a wonderful example of a Mother to me and all who know you! I love you! Then there is my friend, Teresa, who recently lost her 20 year old son, Ethan, to a car accident. This will be her hardest Mother's Day ever. She is also a wonderful mom. My precious Tyler was 26 when he left us, they have all left too soon, yet in God's timeline it was just the right time for them. I want to wish all Mothers who still have their children a very Happy Mother's Day, and to all the ones who have lost children I want to wish a blessed Mother's Day filled with sweet memories of their children and God's great peace and comfort for the days ahead. Still praising my Jesus and loving every moment of this life with my precious Ron, my princess Jerica, my dear Sumer and my bubble of joy, Ava!! I love you all! Looking forward to Heaven where my Tyler lives! Blessed Day to

all, Kathi

T Shirts...

Last year a precious nephew, Drew Treat, and a bunch of his ex-Marine buddies honored Tyler's memory with a climbing trip dedicated to him. They created a special patch in his memory that we have given out to so many people! Ron and I got to go to VA to the SEAL team 4 group and give them all a Tyler patch, we got to send a bunch of them to Afghanistan to the team, we gave them to some of Tyler's friends here, some cousins, we gave them along with our thanks to local officials and a few weeks ago we got to meet one of Tyler's friends from BUDS, Brad Beard, he flew up from Houston and drove in from Knoxville one day to spend time at Tyler's grave! One special friend! Ron and I really enjoyed meeting him, we gave him a patch as well. Brad told another friend of Tyler's about the trip and the patch, Marcus Nalley, he's in Indiana. Marcus got in touch with us and told us about his friendship with Tyler. They all speak so highly of our son! Marcus said at his wedding last year they had special memorial cards of Tyler on the reception tables with info on how to give to the SEAL Foundation instead of wedding favors. Another great friend. What a special thing to do for our boy! I sent him a patch!! Marcus is now working on making T Shirts to sell at ball games to raise awareness of the SEAL Foundation and how to give money to help families of fallen SEALS. The front of those shirts is the Tyler patch design! WOW On the back is the info on where to send donations to the SEAL Foundation!! Thank you Lord for Your continued use of our precious Tyler for good things!! Let me know if you want a T Shirt and I'll get you the ordering info!! HOOYAH Tyler Woodle!! God be with the families and friends of SEAL Team 6! Thank you for what you did for the USA! HOOYAH Team 6!!

the DASH...

"I read of a man who stood to speak, at the funeral of a friend.
He referred to the dates on her tombstone, from the beginning to the end.
He noted that first came the date of her birth
and spoke the following date with tears,
but he said what mattered most was
the DASH between those years."
(linda ellis)
I love this poem! Tyler would have loved it as well, he truly lived his life well in the DASH! I hope that we all can say that our lives count, especially in the DASH!! God be with you dear friends!

Oh how I miss my boy!!

God is so very gracious to us, He holds us when we cry. He rejoices with us when we rejoice. He lets us choose and still loves us. He walks with us, whispers in our hearts, encourages us, lifts us, teaches us, blesses us. He is our all in all....and yet when our heart breaks He feels our hurts as well.. He says stay strong, keep looking up, it will all be ok when we get to Heaven...and yet we have to live on here until that day. Our only hope is in Him, He promises and He does not break any promises.. He says stay strong, hold on to faith, keep moving forward.....with....
CHEERFUL COURAGE!! This is the courage that does not come from ourselves, but from our relationship with our Lord Jesus, God's only Son!! Oh how I miss my Tyler!! God knows how much, because He too missed His Son when He came to earth to live and die for us! He knows, and that is why He is the only comfort for the hurting!! Lamentations 3:22-26 "because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed for His compassions never fail they are new every morning. Great is Your faithfulness I say to myself, the Lord is my portion therefore I will wait for Him. The Lord is good to those whose hope is in Him to the one who seeks Him. It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord" ....new every morning, I have found this to be so very true..... Hooyah Tyler Woodle! your mom loves you