Stacy

Stacy and Chelsea:)

Yesterday my sister Stacy would have been 41. it is really hard to imagine since she was never even thirty. In my mind she will always be the fun loving crazy little sister.

I didn't blog yesterday because it is really sometimes to hard to talk about people who have gone on before us at all, and certainly hard on a special "day". Scott made the comment "If everyone lived their lives like Stacy lived her last two years, well, it wouldn't be heaven...but this world would be an awfully nice place." There are songs written about the life we begin the moment we see an end in sight. Stacy lived hers beautifully.

The end IS in sight for all of us...I am always inspired by Stacy's love and life and even though she was my younger sister she will always be the greatest example of living life to the fullest I know! One day, a few weeks before she died, Stacy made the comment to me while we were driving, "I just don't feel like I'm doing enough". This was my sister that for 2 years never let a night fall without responding to every single letter or card she received that day! She never let a moment pass that she did not tell me who much she loved me...and I may have been blessed to be loved by her, but I was no more special to her than all her loved ones...all who she TOLD her feelings to. Stacy lived more "last days" than anyone I know...she felt each day could be the only one she had and she made each one count!

The life of every party, the light of every room, the love of children (who now have a hard time remembering her) and the sweetest Christian I have even know...my sister Stacy made this world a better place to be! Today and everyday she is missed.

"To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die."
~Thomas Campbell, "Hallowed Ground"