Sawyer Wayne Kidd - Site Memorial Online

Dear Lauren and family:

I am so so so sorry to hear about your loss. I know you cant see me but my eyes are full of tears. I know there are no words that can make the pain go away and nothing can make you feel better right now but please know that I am saying prayers for you and that my heart is with you. Sawyer was such a beautiful little boy. He will be missed greatly. God has his reasons and though we may not understand them and dont want them to happen, He knows why they have to and we just have to trust in Him and let Him do. I know this is very hard for you. Please let me know if you need anything and please know that I am so sorry. I love you all and sorry that I am not with you during this time of need. We will miss you very much Sawyer.

I pray that you know and feel how you are loved and to know that as much as we, your family and friends care, the Lord loves and cares for you far more, He is with us in our darkest times.  He wants us to call upon His help, strength, comfort and provision, just as i said before this is such a dark time, a time when we want to understand, we want answers, why did this happen, God tells us in those times...."I'll explain later...." I think we would have more peace and comfort if we could have those answers now, but it would lessen our faith.  Words, hugs, gestures are wonderful and a blessing but the thing we all know is that  sorrow remains, but one day sorrow will lose it's sting, our strength, faith, hope and joy will be renewed, until then we want to help you carry it whenever and however we can, our prayers and thoughts are with you.

Richard and Cheryl

My deepest condolences.  May these few words from the Holy Scriptures bring you comfort in your time of grief...

John 11:32-45

32 And so Mary, when she arrived where Jesus was and caught sight of him, fell at his feet, saying to him: “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” 33 Jesus, therefore, when he saw her weeping and the Jews that came with her weeping, groaned in the spirit and became troubled; 34 and he said: “Where have YOU laid him?” They said to him: “Lord, come and see.” 35 Jesus gave way to tears. 36 Therefore the Jews began to say: “See, what affection he used to have for him!” 37 But some of them said: “Was not this [man] that opened the eyes of the blind man able to prevent this one from dying?”

38 Hence Jesus, after groaning again within himself, came to the memorial tomb. It was, in fact, a cave, and a stone was lying against it. 39 Jesus said: “TAKE the stone away.” Martha, the sister of the deceased, said to him: “Lord, by now he must smell, for it is four days.” 40 Jesus said to her: “Did I not tell you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God?” 41 Therefore they took the stone away. Now Jesus raised his eyes heavenward and said: “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. 42 True, I knew that you always hear me; but on account of the crowd standing around I spoke, in order that they might believe that you sent me forth.” 43 And when he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice: “Laz´a·rus, come on out!” 44 The [man] that had been dead came out with his feet and hands bound with wrappings, and his countenance was bound about with a cloth. Jesus said to them: “Loose him and let him go.”

45 Therefore many of the Jews that had come to Mary and that beheld what he did put faith in him;

Please go to the following link for more information regarding the Hope expressed in this passage

http://www.watchtower.org/e/200809/article_01.htm