8 Years.......May 10,2018......

      Lord Jesus, I can't believe it has been 8 years! These years have taken so very long and yet have flown by! How is it the grief is still so fresh? The great hurt and pain in our hearts....still there...and yet we live on! Even though our precious son, Tyler is gone on ahead of us! You, Lord, have never left us for a moment!
     Today I received flowers again from the Navy SEALS for Mother's Day. Why do flowers always bring such pain and tears now? I should smile and yet I just cry at the sight of them. I am always so very thankful for these special warriors, our SEALS, and the wonderful people who take great care to honor Tyler by sending flowers to me. My heart smiles as I pretend that Tyler sent them himself! Mother's Day is one of the hardest days of the year for me now. I am two moms, the happy and the sad. Revelation 21:4 One day He, God will wipe away all our tears!
      Yet as always,  I am looking forward so very much to seeing our Jerica this weekend, her beautiful smile is the thing that lifts my sadness and makes me happy as a Mother! I am so blessed to be her mom! Jerica deserves more than half a mom, I am so very proud to be hers and so thankful to God that she is mine! The Mother's Day for Tyler is sad and the Mother's Day for Jerica is joyful! I have been blessed in life to have been given others to love and Mother as well, our Sumer came into my life in 1981, and little Ava, her angel baby, both gifts from our Lord to me! Ron and I love our 3 girls, our Tyler in Heaven and together we rejoice in our gifts! I thank God for blessing me to be the Mother of such precious children!
      Oh how my heart breaks for other Mothers who have lost a child now. I feel their pain, and I understand now so much better how my Mother's heart ached for her little baby girl, Peggy, that died before I was born. She watched as my baby brother Johnny(2011) died of cancer and she lost her grandson, Tyler (2010) as well before the Lord Jesus called her home to Heaven.  Oh how Mother's Day must have grown increasingly painful for her ! Psalm 147:3 Her broken heart is now healed!
      We need to always try and be sensitive to others and the hard roads they walk among us. We don't know what God has called them to endure in this life many times. When we are out celebrating there are always pe|ople around us who are hurting in some way. Let us keep our hearts open to love them in Jesus. Remember when we are given pain and sorrow, we are also comforted by our Lord, the comfort He gives us is to be given by us, to others, and not just kept for ourselves! 2Corinthians 1:4
      We have seen so much joy in these years as well as pain and grief.
 Our precious little girl, Jerica is all grown up, living her life & enjoying her career! She has met & married the love of her life, Joe! As of November 11, 2017 Jerica is now Mrs. Joe Murdock! The wedding was so beautiful! She & Joe planned every detail to celebrate their love for one another & their families & friends! They have both lost their brothers & honored them both in special ways on this important day. I pray that they will have a long & wonderful, adventurous & loving life together! That Jesus will be the Lord of their marriage & their only hope & strength in times of trouble.  J&J!  (& is their symbol for their marriage & for their wedding!!) 
     Our Lord Jesus has been the Rock that has held us together and carried all of us through these 8 years of loss!   Ron and I are still praying for our Navy SEALS and all of our military! Are you? Please keep them in your prayers! Set your cell phone to alarm at 6pm that's 1800 hours and lift them up to Jesus! HOOYAH Tyler Woodle!
     Another very special gift from our Lord Jesus, Tyler's very close friends, family to us all, Harry and Ashley Meiners, announced the birth of their new baby boy! His name is Tyler Auden (means old friend) Meiners! Oh how great a love these wonderful people have for our Tyler! His life is carried on!
    God is so very kind to us in life! He has such a great love for His children that out of great pain, He always brings great joy!  May God bless you on this Mother's.  
 Day! In Jesus, Kathi, Tyler's mom!

Memorial Day...is everyday!

Another Memorial Day has come and gone on our calendars.....and yet........ for families that have lost loved ones in the military, it never ends!   As a nation we set aside one day per year for remembrance of our loved ones. Oh but that is never enough...every day the ones left behind remember and mourn the loss!
    Do we as a nation so easily forget or at least put these precious souls in the back of our minds? What about the four Americans who lost their lives while the nation and its leaders slept last year in Benghazi? What about all the people who are dieing every day while serving or training in the military to keep us safe and free? What about the men and women who take their own lives everyday in our country because they can no longer live with what they have had to do to keep us free, or what they saw while keeping us free, or the many friends they lost in war, or because of our attitude toward them when they return to us from war, or with the loss of their own limbs and strength? ?
    So many young men and women we lose every day and we as a country set aside one day to remember! Thank God for that one day, never let it pass without remembering all of the people, throughout all of the years that we, America, have enjoyed being a free nation, who lost their lives for us! THANK YOU ALL!   
     Now let us all promise to spend some time everyday in prayer for the safety of the ones serving now and some time thinking about those we have lost and truly being a grateful nation again!  Memorial Day is every day! Thank these brave people every time you meet them, they are our guardians! Today I met an older gentleman who had a WW 2 hat on , he told me he proudly served in the South Pacific during the war. I was blessed to be able to thank a living WW 2 Vet! There are not that many left! I thank God for our military and I thank God to have had a son in the US Navy SEALS and for his 2 Papaws who served in the US Army in WW2! Hooyah! Still praying at 1800 hours every day! Thanks guys!

Footprints on my heart.....

         A little boy walking in front of me left a precious little footprint in the sand on the steps to the beach. This little boy triggered a precious memory of another little boy at the beach so very long ago! My Tyler! These little sandy footprints soon get blown away on the beach but, oh, the ones I remember are forever on my heart! I had to take a picture of this little print, it made me smile just thinking of my little boy's footprints! His smile, his laughter, his loving heart and sweetness!   There is another set of footprints that I think of as well, they are from an  old poem called, "Footprints in the Sand" I think. This poem is about 2 sets of prints in the sand, representing Jesus walking beside us in life. Then when things get really hard to bear in life, like losing your baby, there is only one set of footprints in the sand. This poem talks about how we think that when things get hard, sometimes Jesus leaves us alone to walk through it, but how very wrong we are in this thinking! I can testify that these times are truly when Jesus carries us through life! Praise God for those precious footprints! He daily bears our burdens and carries our sorrows, we just need to rest our head on His strong and loving shoulders......

Psalm 22:1 Why?

"My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?"    Psalm 22:1      Jesus' words, sometimes our words, too!
       April 15, 2013 Morning devotional from Charles Spurgeon, "Morning and Evening"

      No other place so well shows the griefs of Christ as Calvary, and no other moment at Calvary is so full of agony as that in which His cry rends the air____" My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" At this moment, physical weakness was united with acute mental torture from the shame and disgrace though which He had to pass. To make His grief culminate with emphasis, He suffered spiritual agony surpassing all expression, resulting from the departure of His Father's presence. This was the black midnight of His horror. It was then that He descended the abyss of suffering. No man can enter into the full meaning of these words. Some of us think at times that we could cry, "My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?" There are seasons when the brightness of our Father's smile is eclipsed by clouds and darkness, but let us remember that God never does really forsake us. It is only a seeming forsaking of us, but in Christ's case it was a real forsaking. In our case, our cry is often dictated by unbelief. In His case, it was the utterance of a dreadful fact, for God had really turned away from Him for a season. Since even the thought that He has forsaken us gives us agony, what must the woe of the Savior have been when He exclaimed, "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" 


   *This is what we all feel at times when bad things happen in our lives, some feel forsaken for a moment, then turn to the God Who loves them. Speaking the words, "I love You and I trust You, Lord Jesus, even in this time. You will be my comfort, my peace, and my strength even in this. Help me O Father to stay close to You."   Some people turn from God in anger, mistakenly believing that He would cause them hurt and pain on purpose. BUT God........Loves us even now more than ever and longs to be close to us, He does not forsake His children, He holds them close. As a parent I know that sometimes in our children's lives we have to hold them close when they do not want to be held. They rage against our arms, kicking and screaming against the loving arms that hold them no matter what! This is what we do as children of Almighty God at times, yet He holds us with strong and loving arms! 
         One year ago on April 15, 2012 some dear friends of ours lost their 21 year old son to a car accident, they grieve as we do.  In February 2012 my dearest friend Marsha went to be with the Lord, her loved ones grieve as we do. In October 2011 my sweet brother Johnny went to be with the Lord, we all grieve. On February 16, 2010 we lost our precious son, Tyler, when he went to be with our Lord, we still grieve. On April 15, 2013 Boston lost 3 people and many more were injured beyond belief, their loved ones grieve, America grieves with them. BUT God has not forsaken His own, He holds them close, He longs to comfort them and us with His great love, even if we sometimes kick and scream!  We do not grieve as those who have no hope! Our great hope and comfort is in our God!!  He has not and He will not forsake His children, even for a moment! Hold on to this!

Merry? Happy???? Excuse Me!!

Merry Christmas, in this life what does merry really mean?
       Webster says it means,   delightful, giving pleasure, lightheartedness......
So for Christmas when we wish someone, or they wish us a Merry Christmas, it means to have a delightful, pleasureful and lighthearted time at Christmas.....But.... there are those of us who struggle with this season......people who are sick, in pain, grieving, sad, lonely, homeless, all sorts of struggles........what do we say to them? Sometimes is seems almost cruel to wish a Merry (lighthearted, delightful,...) Christmas to someone who struggles in life just to get through the day! What do we say to them?   I think of the old carol, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, What does this song mean? Have we

God rest ye merry, gentlemen
Let nothing you dismay
Remember, Christ, our Saviour
Was born on Christmas day
To save us all from Satan's power
When we were gone astray
O tidings of comfort and joy,
Comfort and joy
O tidings of comfort and joy

lost the meaning of Christmas completely? Is it about being Merry? Look at the words.......This is one of the oldest Christmas carols, going back to the 15th century.....
                                    This year I wish you comfort and joy in Jesus Christ our Lord! He came to give us Life in Him, Comfort and Joy will hold us as Merry never could in this life!

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     Also how about Happy New Year......... what is happiness anyway and where do we get it? Happy is a word that has to do with our circumstances in life. Sometimes as well, people are in circumstances in life that are hard, they are painful. What good does it do to wish them, happiness ?  Oh that we would wish each other, encourage each other with the word Joy this year! Joy comes from deep within our souls, given to us by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!  God speaks of Joy throughout His Word! He gives us Joy unspeakable in Him! He says the Joy of the Lord is our strength! He commands us to be filled with Joy! Joy comes from Him alone! Not this world, not our circumstances in life here and now! Joy is a true gift of God Himself!   This year, 2013, I wish you all Joy! Comfort and Joy! May we all find ourselves wrapped in His Joy this year!
                         He came for this reason, that we might receive the gift of the true Christmas. New Life in Jesus Christ! He holds this precious package, wrapped in love, out to us all! Open your heart to receive it this year if you have not done so before and truly live in 2013! No matter what comes your way! What a way to start a new year!
                            Tyler is now experiencing true Joy in the presence of our Lord Jesus!  Tidings of Comfort and Joy to you from Tyler's mom while we are here! 

Why He came....

this is the real story of Christmas........this also makes me smile when I think of how our Lord Jesus rescued our precious son Tyler.......this will be our 3rd Christmas without our Tyler.....always a time of excruciating sadness mixed with the joy of Christ's birth....But...this is our Tyler's 3rd Christmas with Jesus! What we only know in part, he sees and enjoys in entirety!


            "He comes down, down from the heights of absolute being into time and space, down into humanity, down to the very roots and sea bed of the humanity which He Himself created. But He goes down to come up again and bring ruined sinners up with Him....one may think of a diver*, first reducing Himself to nakedness, then glancing in midair, then gone with a splash, vanished, rushing down through green and warm water, into black and cold water, down through increasing pressure into the death-like region of ooze and slime and old decay, and then up again, back to color and light, His lungs almost bursting till......
   Suddenly He breaks the surface again,
                                                  holding in His hands
                                                               the dripping precious thing
                                                                                     that
                                                                     He went down to recover!''
                                            
                                 this is Christmas! Jesus came for us!
                                                    He came to rescue our Tyler from this place!
                                                               He will be back to rescue all of His children!
                                                REJOICE!! REJOICE!! EMMANUEL!!

   thank you C.S. Lewis for this beautiful word picture of our Lord!

another Thanksgiving!

     Well another Thanksgiving Day has come and gone since our sweet Tyler left us. I miss him so much and so many others do as well, yet we cannot live in the past. Our Tyler is celebrating every holiday with Jesus now! For that I am most thankful and I will see him again one day!
      We have so very much to be thankful for,  our God is faithful, He covers us with His wings of love and carries us through each day of this life! We are only passing through this world on the way to meet our Maker, this is not our home. If only we all could live in this mind set each and every day, then and only then would we truly know peace.
     Sometimes we place too much emphasis on a day like, Thanksgiving. The media would have us believe that it is so very important to be with lots of family and friends on this day. That our life would be complete if we have a huge family dinner together with everyone on this day. Well I believe that Thanksgiving is something that should live in our hearts everyday of the year and that our Lord Jesus is the only One Who really makes everyday special in this life. I love my precious family, all of them, but I know that I am truly never alone even when I am not with them,  He is my peace, my comfort, my only help in times of trouble!
     So wherever you are today, and were on Thanksgiving Day, remember that it is only one day of your life that you should be thankful for! You did not miss out on anything if your were not with a huge family, the God of the Universe was and is with you! Now that's something to be thankful for!
     Today and always, be extra thankful for our military, our SEALS, and all of our troops. They spend many special days away from their families, friends, loved ones,  just to keep us safe at home. We get turkey and all the trimmings in peace and they get cold, damp grounds, fear, pain, worry, loneliness, along with having to do things they sometimes can not live with, just for us to be free and safe! And we think we have problems!  Thank them, and pray for them, send cards and packages to bring some comfort far from home this year! Enjoy your freedom!
         Giving thanks always, in Jesus!!  HOOYAH!  Thanks for the special phone calls from our guys on Thanksgiving! Tyler's brothers! Now that's family!

Jesus Bring the Rain!

Always praying for our guys, our SEALS, Tyler's brothers at 6pm, 1800 hours  HOOYAH guys! You're being watched over by the King of Kings and Lord of Lords!!

Thank You to true men of valor!

HOOYAH! Tyler's brothers!

Happy Birthday Tyler!

     Today Ron and I spent a wonderful lunch with Tyler's brother, Harry Meiners, his wife Ashley and 3 beautiful children! They drove a long way just to be with us, just to share stories about Tyler, laughter and tears.
      Tyler was blessed with such special friends, many who loved our son and enjoyed life with him. Friends who also share the same Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ and will one day see Tyler again! What a special God we have, He loves us, He saves us, He blesses our lives and He daily bears our burdens! He sends special gifts of love through others just when we need it the most! Thank You Lord, please kiss our boy for us on his 29th birthday!
     Harry and Tyler were so very close, such great friends, true brothers of the very best kind! They got each others jokes, talked long hours about everything in life, laughed and enjoyed every moment together. Tyler would have loved today, too! Harry and Ashley went to the cemetary to spend time with our Tyler this afternoon, they talked about him to their little ones. They took doughnuts and had a birthday party there together as a family! Oh Lord, Tyler would love that! So sweet, we are still wiping tears! No greater love than that.........Thank You Harry and Ashley!  God bless you all!

Birthday eve....

29 years ago tonight........Ron and I had gone out to eat with my parents...after getting home I awoke in the middle of the night, our baby was on the way! We called my mom and dad to come to our house and stay with Sumer so we could drive to the hospital. When we got in the car we noticed it was almost out of gas, so my dad followed us to the truck stop on I40 to make sure we made it and he went back to our house.
      Ron and I went on to Asheville to Mission and our beautiful baby boy, Tyler, was born at 10am, on October 7, 1983! I do believe he was smiling when he came into this world! He had kicked so hard before he got here that I just knew he would be a great soccer player, and he was! Always a happy baby, so loving and full of smiles! He looked alot like Ron's dad when he was born so much that Papaw claimed him as his own, sent from God to him! He was a precious gift from God to everyone who ever met him! But Tyler was Mama's little man! Happy Birthday to our baby boy! We all love and miss you Ronald Tyler Woodle!!

Tyler's birthday week 2012

Our God is so awesome! This is not news, He always has been and He always will be. This week once again He reminds me of how very much He cares for us and how He comforts us in our pain and grief.    God sent 12 of Tyler's brothers to visit us, we shared a wonderful evening and had a birthday party together for Tyler! Thank You Lord Jesus, for giving us a wonderful son, our Tyler, for giving him wonderful brothers, true friends and for sending people to love on us when we need it!  Last year his precious friend Harry came to spend the night with us so we would not be alone on Tyler's birthday, thank you! Once again God reaches down into our hearts to bless us! We cannot praise You enough!! We have many of Tyler's brothers on our hearts and in our prayers right now as they serve in hard circumstances, far from home! Please join us in prayer at 6pm. or 1800 hours each day for our guys!      HOOYAH Tyler Woodle!  Your mom and dad sure do love and miss you!

May you feel the arms that hold the universe holding you tonight, He's holding us! And our precious Tyler is with Him, our comfort! 

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

HOOYAH!

GREAT WORK TEAM 6!! TYLER WOULD BE SO PROUD AND SO ARE WE! HOOYAH TO TYLER'S BUDS!! GOD BLESS YOU ALL AND KEEP YOU SAFE, WE STILL PRAY EACH DAY AT 6:00 PM FOR OUR SEALS AND ALL OUR TROUPS!!