The Silver Lining
My mom always looks for God’s hand in everything that happens to ones self in their lifetime. I get denied for a job because I have blood problems, God has a reason, the result I get hired by the largest food production family in the world: Kraft Foods. Now everything comes around and my mom had to search long and hard to find a reason as to why God took her youngest child at the age of 17 in a car crash. The result is DIANA’S RUN. Please check out this page and if you are local to the area, go and join the festivities as my parents always enjoy seeing the great outpouring of support of the run and it’s mission and supporting the memory of Diana. She truly was a unique child who I can only describe to people as the best of her brother and sisters attributes. In the end I still believe God brought her home as he realized that he had just put too much talent in one creature. As for the silver lining, we may have lost Diana but her legacy will continue and provide an outreach to youth ministries in New Jersey and hopefully a greater area. Supposedly the attendance at Young Life, Church and Christian events in the immediate area after Diana’s accident and since have increased dramatically, so yeah my mom sees her effects daily.
May 6th, 2005 at 7:33 am
That’s incredible. I’m tearing up at work.
May 12th, 2005 at 11:36 pm
I remember this… I think… you don’t have enough “plateletes” in your blood and they couldn’t give you the job right away or something, so you had to keep working at the hell hole we worked at…
May 23rd, 2005 at 1:23 pm
It is wonderful to memorialize your sister this way. I lost my daughter two years ago this month and the pain is still fresh. For the parents and the other brothers and sisters, the pain is always there. A large hole ripped in the universe.
I’m with your Mom. I see God’s hand in everything. Not that I always agree with how He handles things: we don’t always see eye-to-eye and I’ve been arguing with him since I could talk. I keep telling Him how to do His job. Sometimes He laughs, sometimes He ignores me, sometimes He shines such a light that I finally get whatever point He’s trying to make.
Life is a vale of tears. Some of us learn it earlier than others. Some of us accept that and move on with the show while the others stand around stamping their feet and whining about how it’s “not fair.” These are essentially boring people. Age doesn’t improve them.