A Journey of Awareness, Remembrance of Love

“It is one life
Whether we spend it
Laughing or weeping.”

“Intellect takes you to the door,
but it doesn’t take you
into the house.”
Shams Tabrizi

Sarah Burrell  1998 – 2013

                                   My dear friends.

Allison Love
1999 – 2015

I want you to journey
With me,
To take a journey of Awareness,
Through the eyes of Others,
Many, many others.
Through the lives of Others,
Yes, many lives.

Shari Ann Fitts

It will be a costly journey,
But this price must be paid.
And in a real sense,
It has already been paid,
On Wings that fly us Home.

For these very many others
Not to have died in vain,
The message of their brief lives
Needs to be shared,

Kaye Massolo
1981 – 1996

So that we can be made aware,
So we can be brought into the Light,
The healing, saving Light of Love.

So very many
Of our precious Children
Made a choice
To enter God’s Kingdom,
Before He called them
To come Home.

These precious, precious lives
Speak to us,

Michelle Leha Joseph       1981 -1998

To our hearts,
To our minds,
To our very Souls,
Through lives that hungered,
Hungered for Love.

It is a message of Love
That resonates through time.
It Mirrors their Love,
With a depth of Meaning
Beyond our understanding.
It is a message of Hope,

Joshua James Treichler 1983 – 2000

It is a Prayer:

To be kind,
To listen,
To care,
To Love
Without condition.

Please take a few moments
To be with them,
To walk with them,
To look deeply into their eyes
And feel the Love
They can still share with you,
Reflected in your brief life.

Cassi Leann Churchwell 1991 – 2014

Perhaps, my friends,
There is a deeper meaning
To Life
And death.
Perhaps, our lives can be made
More meaningful,
As we come to realize
Just how brief, how precious
Life is.
Perhaps we do not know

Eric Donald Grove
1991 – 2004

How fragile
is the human heart.

Begin the journey and click here
But be prepared, my friend,
To shed many a tear,
As you look deeply
Into the eyes
Of those who were deeply Loved
And lost.

My friends,
We lack a depth of understanding.
Our humanity is slowly dying.

Keelin Brett Eiger          1990 – 2006

I beg of you
To please go out into this world
And be compassionate to everyone.

Our children
Are the sons and daughters
Of us all.

According to the World Health Organization,
almost one million (1,000,000) people
die from suicide each year.
In the last 45 years,

Barak Milby 1987 – 2008

suicide rates have increased 60% worldwide.
In the United States,
there is an average of one suicide
every 15 minutes.

I beg you to please give our children hope
And plant seeds of compassion
Deep in the soil of their precious Souls.
No child is perfect,
And none should ever be expected
To be so.

Jerry Raymond Thomas               1977 – 1993

“We have met the enemy
and he is us.”
– Walt Kelly

In the Soft, Still Quiet of the Night
by Wm. C. Anderson

“Love is patient and kind.
Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude.
It does not demand its own way.
It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged.
It does not rejoice about injustice
but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.
Love never gives up,
never loses faith,
is always hopeful,
and endures through every circumstance …
love will last forever!”
1 Corinthians 13:4-8

Joshua Ginter             1981 – 1996

“Lonely rivers flow
To the sea, to the sea
To the open arms of the sea
Lonely rivers sigh
“Wait for me, wait for me”
I’ll be coming home, wait for me.”
– Unchained Melody

Love need not be
A Razor
That leaves the Soul
To Bleed.

Photos from our adventure trip
and from our production of Twelfth Night
and other trips taken this past year
are now available:
click here

“The bitterest tears shed over graves
are for words left unsaid
and deeds left undone.”
– Harriet Beecher Stowe