Thursday, March 19, 2009

Thinking of my Uncles

My Mom's brother, my uncle Lee, is in heaven now. He has been battling throat cancer and he died Tuesday night. His memorial service is this Saturday. I have many good memories of him from my childhood and we had some fun times when we visited him a couple times this winter. I'm thankful that he was at our wedding and got to see us race at our wedding reception. I've been thinking alot about Lee the last couple of days. It's also made me think of my uncle Russ. He was my Dad's brother that died from a brain tumor about 18 years ago. Before he died he was making a racecar. He never got to race but because of him, 2 of my cousins (sons of another one of my uncles) started racing and eventually their sister did too. They started racing when I was living in Florida but as soon as I moved back to Minnesota, I never missed a race unless I was out of town. I eventually started racing too. And then Aaron started racing and here we are. Isn't it amazing how God interweaves all the people and situations in our lives to bring us exactly where He wants us.
Michelle

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Sorry to hear about your Uncle. It must be a tough time right now.

It is amazing God has led you all! I think he preps us all our lives. At least I feel like he has done that with me.

Diane said...

Sorry to hear about your Uncle. Praise the Lord he is suffering no more!!! I enjoyed reading about your racing heritage.