An Ode To A Passing Friend

06Jun10

Over this past weekend, a friend from college passed away in a car accident. This is the closest I have been to a death outside of family and its a monster in of itself. When news hits your brain and you finally realize what exactly is going on, your heart sinks. Those words that you can’t believe at first cut deep into you spilling out emotions. Me being a bit of a proud dude, I held in the tears because I was in a car with a friend when I heard the news.

I couple minutes after I told my friend what happened, he changed the song we were listening to to How He Loves. The song, in all its beauty, made it harder to hold in the tears but It was the perfect song to be played. It reaffirmed to me that God does love us and He loves us so freakin much that our human thoughts will never comprehend or understand the extent of such a love. When unfortunate events happen in our lives, we need to stick by God, Sometimes the first thing we do is ask him why the world he would allow this to happen. We need to understand that he has a reason for everything and a reason for all. How HE LOVES us, Oh How HE LOVES us.

Tracy was one of those girls that you know right from the get go, that she loves to have fun and loves to talk with others. A very sociable girl. A girl that always stood out to me. It’s tough to describe her fully because she is so unique. It was very apparent that she had found God and really dug into his being and his Love. You pretty much can’t not like her. Her charming whimsical nature was beyond endearing. I remember her always saying “green” when I would burp in her presence. I still don’t fully understand why but that was her. I also remember sharing the same love for Dove Dark chocolate. That bag that I shared with her. She was a fan of Transformers, which is super cool for a girl haha. Above all of this is the fact that she had built a fire with God, a fire that will never go out, a fire that no amount of water can douse, a fire that can be seen throughout the heavens and on earth. She was purely “alive”. I don’t mean that in just the obvious definition of just living but she knew how to live and she was completely full of life. Her life will not be forgotten because she now lives within all those who knew her. Friends, family, and even enemies if it were even possible for her to have any.

Shine on girl, like I know you will. Everytime I burp, I’ll here you say “green”.

KIT

Adam Groff

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