Greetings from Heaven

In April our nephew and niece, Matt and Patrice, lost their sweet baby Gabe at 37 weeks. He and Jake were born only a couple of weeks apart, and it broke my heart like nothing else in recent memory.

This beach trip is the first chance for Grayson's family, including all of the boys' cousins, to meet Jake ... and Gabe should have been here, too. Early in the week, as the kids were playing on the deck during a light rain, a rainbow appeared, stretching from one end of the beach to the other ... for most of the kids, it was their first rainbow. And I got all misty, because I knew it was Gabe grinning down at us from Heaven, saying "Nice to meet you all! Can't wait to see you when you get here."

Thanks, Gabe, for that moment. We love you so much.