Goodbye, Beth

A while back, I shared a link to the blog Beth and Dave James kept to chronicle her battle with pancreatic cancer.  My friend Beth passed away today.  Thankfully her battle was relatively brief.  She spent a year fighting it, and really suffered the last three months.  My heart aches for our loss, and for the fact that her children will grow up without her, but I find comfort in knowing she is in the loving arms of our Father, free from the pain that enveloped her these past months.

My prayer for her children and husband is comfort and peace.  God surely has wonderful things in store for them.

Before anyone told me she was gone, I knew it.  I felt it somehow.  When Pressly came home from work, he asked what time she had passed, and I said I didn't know for sure.  He said for some reason about 6, he just knew that she was gone.  She had been on my mind all afternoon, and shortly after 6, I had a sense of relief when I thought of her.  My prayer has been that God would take away her pain, and He has.  Just not the way I had hoped.

This was the scene from my back porch after I received the phone call confirming what I already felt. 

Thanks for the splashy farewell, Beth.  

We love you and will miss your effervescent spirit and beaming smile.