Spiritual message was then delivered by our Pastor Tom Dabasinskas, Moraga Valley Presbyterian Church
As we think about our hearts and lives since May 25, 2006, it is God who we lean on (as we did when Nicholas was navigating all the "leukemia and bone marrow stuff") to guide us through each day. It is not easy at all, as the knots in our stomachs are present 24-hours a day. And we think about the different types of "knots"-so to speak that Nicholas was dealing with every day for 552 days.
Our focus was to love and help to protect, guide, and see Nicholas through ensuring that things were being done "for" him and not "to" him. As his mother and father, we imagine, we feel, we trust, and we believe God as our mother/father is loving us in every imaginable and unimaginable way toward seeing us through the gut-wrenching times of our lives associated with the loss of Nicholas. And we are reminded that our loss is not a loss for Nicholas for he has found his place at our Father's side and that is the right place to be. We struggle with balancing our thinking toward this understanding and continually pray, trust, and focus on love in every aspect to better understand and to guide our understanding.
We then talked about conversations we would have with Nicholas, specifically, about always knowing that no matter if we could not see each other, if we could not feel each other, hear each other, or simply were apart, we would know-just know-that each of us would "always" be in the other's heart and each of us would feel safe, comforted, and loved.
In addition to the puzzle piece, everyone received a bottle of bubbles and during the procession to the Interment Service, bubbles were streaming from windows of cars from Moraga Valley Presbyterian Church to the Oakmont Memorial Park.
