GIVE ME FAITH by Kyle Sherman
From the album, "Already Here"
Friends of ours, Zach and Erin, lost their sweet boy, Boone, last Friday. He was 3 years old. After years of battling a debilitating disease, he is now free and whole. We celebrated his life yesterday with friends and family. Erin gave me permission to share some of the letter she wrote for the service.
These are her words.
The last thing I want to pinpoint that Boone taught us is that God truly is good all the time. And I’m not talking about some “head in the clouds” type of good… I mean truly, honestly, deeply good. Even from day one we saw God’s goodness in Boone’s delivery, in his time in the NICU, in his years in between and even in his last days on earth. Boone made us look at things much more simply and in doing so we were able to see the little things, the little gifts, that we would have missed otherwise. God is a father that loves giving gifts to his children and so many times we are so caught up in our lives that we miss the small, sweet good gifts that He gives. Boone’s life brought those small, sweet good gifts into the forefront and once we started to really notice them we saw His goodness everywhere. We could not have seen those without Boone. We would not have been aware of the goodness of God without Boone...
...We often have people tell us that our strength or our peace is an inspiration or is, as one doctor put it, un-nerving, but make no mistake… that is by no other power than the power of God. He has walked us through every single step of this process and I am confident He will continue to do so. He will give us strength, peace, joy and hope and He will do so until we are one day reunited with our precious son.
