Just Keep Going

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That six year old boy…

Sat in the car with his family…watching firemen work on what was left of their house…which was nothing…a charred heap lay in the basement hole…

The farmer approached relieved to find everyone safe…told them not to worry…set them up in a trailer…local churches providing clothes and food…and again they started over…so many losses…he said…in such a short time…

His mother…young…beautiful…killed when a car she was in careened into a bridge…

The loss of a little boy’s prized possessions…his BB gun and Buffalo nickels left in Texas in a storage shed with the rest of the family possessions…sold to a friend when Papo decided to stay in Iowa and never return to Brady…

And now this…

What a strong man that father of his must have been to keep going…

And sometimes that’s all you can do…is just keep going…one foot in front of the other…because you have to…because you need to…because that’s what you do for those you love…

And they’ll know…one day they’ll know…that the strength that got them through THEIR one foot in front of the other life trials…

They got from you…
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And that husband of mine…agrees…