Christmas

Weighing heavy on my heart tonight, you are.........

Last night after Christmas mass a Santa walked in to the church up to baby Jesus. Santa removed his hat and kneeled before him, he quietly and gently layed a blanket over the baby in the manger. I loved that! We were simply, quietly, and humbly reminded why we celebrate this day! I can only imagine what a beautiful celebration you must have had today. Love you Daryn!
Aunt Mindy

Christmas Day

Daryn, I suppose you are having a grand celebration with Jesus today on His birthday!!! Are the angels just singing and praising with the most heavenly voices? Christmas day for us is still so hard when you should be here with us, your family. You are missed so much Daryn by everyone. We just have to trust and believe that you are right where you are supposed to be and we will see you again. I love you sweetheart. Ask Jesus to bless us at our Christmas party tomorrow and let us feel you with us. I have a Christmas eve memory of you that I cherish honey. It was late after our Christmas party, everyone had left but your family. You were sitting at the kitchen counter with your pretty tan coat on, looking so very beautiful, just content and happy to be there and in no real hurry to leave. I was loving you so much in that moment. Thank you for giving me that memory. Merry Christmas blondie.

Gramma S

The Christmas Tree

I talked to Aunt Pat today. I called her when she was decorating her Christmas tree and she was crying. And I have been praying for all those people in the world who are crying while they decorate their tree. Taiylor and Alec are coming Saturday to help us decorate our tree. Taiylor asked if we could put up the big tree again. It hasn't been up since Daryn celebrated Christmas with us four years ago. So we will decorate it together, remembering in our hearts that last Christmas with her. She had a beautiful red dress on. She was just one of the kids running around, having a great time. Oh how I didn't know how perfect my life was, my kids all home, healthy and happy. Never again will it be the same. Never again till we are all together in heaven for Christmas. So Daryn watch over us all as we decorate our Christmas trees and help us know that you are safe and loved and held by Christ our Savior forever. Love you my Christmas Angel.

Gram

thanksgiving 2010

It still takes my breath away to think about what happened.............On this day of Thanksgiving I want to say thank you God for eternal life. How could we all live our lives without knowing you and believing in you!?

Love you Daryn - soon we will all be together again!

Another Day

I sit here and I am listening to the clock strike 12 times in my living room. That means September 10 is over. The day I so dread is over. And another day is here. Another day without my girl. This year, three years later seems in some ways especially hard. I miss her so much. I still have such a burning hole in my soul. She sent another dragonfly to me last Sunday. I took a book outside at the cabin to sit in the sun and read and rest for a few minutes. I barely had the book open when a beautiful scarlet red dragonfly came and sat on my open book for a while. I know she sends them to me. Thank you Daryn, you know what touchs my heart.

Love you,

Gramma

Daryn Renee' Worpel - 3 yrs of missing you!

I can't believe it's been 3 years, our hearts are still breaking for you, but our faith carries us.



3 years, still seems like yesterday when you handed me that umbrella with a smile on your face. You were only 10, but so mature, so thoughtful, so gentle, so beautiful!


til we meet at the gate


Love you

Aunt Wendy

3 years

I got in my car this morning and switched the dial to 99.3........ and the DJs were saying , we have our first call .......what is your name? Daryn - he said. They said his name about 3 times and I just thought, wow that's a little message from above! The song they played right after was "Dancing with My Father GOD in fields of GRACE!!"

Love you Daryn - Let God's light shine warm on you today and forever.

First day of school.

Today is the first day of school for all of my grandkids. Everyone is so excited and has a story. Daryn was always so excited to go to school and ride the bus. She wrote that she had butterflys in her tummy three years ago before school started. Oh my goodness Daryn, I can only imagine all the butterflys carrying you around now!!!!!!!!

Grandpa took flowers to Daryn today. "First day of school !" he said, "She needs something special too." Daryn is still and always will be so very loved and cherished by grandpa and grandma and so many others. We will never forget her ever. So happy first day of school this year sweetheart, I know you walk the halls in spirit and love for all of your cousins and friends who are left behind. Keep carrying the torch for them and lead them the way to Jesus. Loving you forever and for always. Grammy

Just heard Caden playing.........
"God and Daryn.......God and Daryn...........God and Daryn"
I am not sure really what he was thinking, but I just smiled.

A few weeks ago we were looking at some pics of the kids and Caden was naming all of the kids and he pointed to Daryn and said "What? How did she get down here?"

We all know where Daryn is..........and I can't wait to join her in all of God's glory!
Caden is ready too, he can't wait to meet God, man, does he have some good questions for him! Caden says that GOD is soooo smart that he must have eaten like 14 smarties:)

LOVE YOU DARYN - can't believe it's been just about 3 years................. think about you all the time:)

God is Love

It is getting close to three years now since I last saw Daryn. If three years ago today I knew what was ahead I would have gone insane. Some days I think I must be insane to be able to keep continuing on this life journey without her. I have lived 61 years and had her to love for only 10 and it seems now the biggest and the most important part of my life, those precious 10 years. Now this week I bury another person I loved, my nephew Chris. Death is so very hard. I looked at some of his pictures today and it so broke my heart. Good people dying young. It just hurts so much. Love hurts as the song goes. But we must "Trust in the Lord with all our hearts and not lean on our own understanding.". Well that is easy to do because I don't have any of my own understanding. The only thing that is becoming very clear to me is that there is nothing on this earth except love that really means anything. And of course we all know that God is love. Anyway, I would like to think that you Daryn Renee' was one of Chris' greeters Sunday. Chris is a real fun guy so I know you will love him!!!! I will be there soon love. Gma

Remembering

Last night we went and watched a dance recital. We watched Kaila, and Jolee with the most beautiful costumes and the most beautiful hairdo's and my heart swelled with love for those precious girls, my girls, my granddaughters. I sat and remembered all of the recitals that we went to watch my beautiful Daryn. And remembered how my heart swelled watching her. All those memories and I need to wrap them up in a beautiful package and hide them in my heart as a sacred thing, so precious that I hardly dare touch them. I was happy last night watching but I don't know if it was an illusion of happiness or the real thing. Today, right now I want to lay down and cry forever. This going on, at times seems so silly when all I want to do is just stop. Then I tuck it away and remember I have so many to love still. I hope you watched Jolee last night Daryn. Oh how you loved it, I'm sure. I can just hear you telling about it with your big eyes and your excited voice and you awesome smile. Dear God I miss you so.

So we go on with life, you there inside of us forever till we see you again. My angel forever and ever.

Your gramma S

Daryn's 13th Birthday

Happy 13th Birthday Daryn,

We celebrated your birthday at the beach today. It was a beautiful day, the sun was shining and the water was glass. The girls wrote you birthday wishes on balloons and sent them up to heaven for you.

Love and miss you bunches

Aunt Wendy

Happy Birthday Sweetheart

Happy birthday sweetheart girl. The birds are singing and the sun is shining for you today. I was thinking that maybe you celebrate your birthday on the day that you entered heaven. Now that is a celebration of great magnitude I am sure!!!!!!!!! But for now honey, I just miss you so much, thinking of all of your birthday parties we had with you, especially thinking of watching you being born. You sure changed your daddy and your mommy's lives. I think daddy was terrorized and I think your mommy was feeling complete. They ended up doing okay with you didn't they? When love comes into this world and lands in your lap you are changed forever and you are forever in love. And you were that first love for your mom and dad and always will be. So my golden girl, I love you with all my heart and I celebrate your life on this earth everyday but especially today with all my beautiful memories of you. Happy Birthday Angel.

Loving you forever,
Gramma Sandy

Oneday

I cannot even imagine what life will be with Daryn one day. Just heard on the radio this week that the biggest party is going on in heaven and will be for all eternity. Think about it. With Daryn and everyone else that we ever knew. How great this will be. I get excited just thinking about it. Everyone happy and in a loving mood. Our leader Daryn is going to be 13 tomorrow. Seems so young but she was much older than us spiritually. Some day my little one, by the mercy of God, I'll join you for a birthday . In the mean time I'll try to be a steward here on God's earth. Missing you!!! Are you missing me? I'm sure you aren't for you know what we can only Imagine. By the way Happy Birthday blondie.
Grandpa

Happy Easter Daryn

Happy Easter Daryn, my sweetheart. I am guessing that the angels are singing the most beautiful songs celebrating Jesus triumpth over death so we can all be with you one day in heaven. We celebrated with your mom and dad and Jolee and Colin and your aunts and cousins at Aunt Holly's house today. We had a grand Easter egg hunt and the kids had fun, Jolee especially. She ran like the wind to find her eggs! We all miss you so much my girl. Phoenix sometimes asks me if my heart hurts and it does so very much. I held your mommy real tight for you tonight I hope she could feel you. I love you my angel and I thank God for every precious minute that we had with you on this earth. Grandma

The other day Kaila said "when is Daryn's birthday?"

I said "April 11".

Kaila asked "Is she going to be 14?"

"No - not yet, 13 this year", I said.

Kaila has a hard time talking about Daryn along with tears and sadness - as a matter of fact she gets mad at me when I cry. Instead she prefers to talk about her birthday coming up like she would any of her other cousins. Because she is still one of the cousins and ALWAYS will be. I have a feeling Daryn would appreciate us not always being so sad when we think about her and include her in our prayers.

As we approach your birthday, Daryn, we will celebrate your life! I am thanking God and his son Jesus Christ for eternity......... Knowing that you are in the presence of God is a great gift! Knowing your mom and dad and siblings and grandparents, cousins and family/friends will join you one day is even better!

Just loving her

I love you Daryn Renee' Worpel with my whole heart and soul. And I would like everyone in the world to know that I will be loving you forever and ever, till the end of time. And just because I can smile and laugh does not mean that my heart is not still broken in two for missing you so much, it just means I have learned to do so and still carry you and everything that comes with you in my heart. All the memories all the love all the pain, all are still their. No one will ever know how much sweetheart, no one. Your gram forever.