DJ's birthday

This Friday is DJ's birthday, he would have been 20 years old. Hard for me to imagine him at twenty in some ways and then again I have Derek who just turned 21 June 27th and David who turned 18 Feb. 26th.

David just asked me the other day, "was DJ a combination of me and Derek"? My reply was yes both in personality and looks, so I suppose I do have an idea of how our DJ would look now, tall like Derek and broad like David, brown eyes like mama's and curly light brown hair. Both Derek and Dave have million dollar smiles and I remember DJ could turn a frown upside down in a NY minute!

Douglas Jacob Blechinger passed away March 13th, 1995 he was 4 1/2 years old. Just a child, yet he added so much to our lives. I remember his steadfastness, he knew he was sick, he knew he was different, he knew he would die sooner then his brothers. He fought a hard battle, his little heart worked so very hard. DJ had seven surgeries in his almost five years on earth. he suffered allot, those are difficult memories.

I remember his smile, his eyes big and brown, his hair, I remember him perfectly. I remember the sound of his voice and his precious expressions. He was quick to laugh, but very serious at times, he was bright and ingenious in so many ways. DJ spoke about Jesus and angels as though everyone saw what he did, he loved the Lord, he never doubted not even at the end, in fact I believe the Lord so often times comforts his children and takes them by the hand as they enter into the heavenlies. I have been with several people as they passed and it is always such an incredible sense of holiness, for them and for those who are sensitive to the Spirit.

Oh I miss him terribly, my heart still aches at times and I think it will until we are reunited again. That is so comforting to know, heaven is a real place, not a fairy tale but an actual place and we really will be reunited! What a day that will be as the song goes, what a day of rejoicing that will be!

I will make a plan to celebrate DJ's birthday perhaps it will be Saturday though, sometimes we all write him a letter and send them up attached to balloons. This time I might save them instead, we will all talk and decide.

I hope this helps those of you who are reading this blog.

Blessings and peace, Linda