Lost Letters

 If you know our story then you know about the “lost letters.” Letters Shane drafted, before he passed, for the kids. We literally were drafting these letters just days before he was called home. His strength was fading so I wrote what he wanted to say for each milestone birthday or event. I remember feeling like there was an urgency, that we were running out of time…we were. A friend of ours had actually brought over a recorder for him to speak into but he was just too weak and refused. One time I wished I hadn’t listened to him. I have the recorder. I remember we did 13th, 16th, 18th Birthdays, high school graduation, college, marriage. And that’s about all we could cover for 3 kids. He was very intentional in what all he wanted mentioned. They were short and sweet and again quiet urgent. I think we completed them in maybe a day or 2 in between sleeping and administering meds. Five short months did not allow for much planning and we believed we were getting a miracle so thought t...