Little FR
12 pointer
This has been a long time in the works. Lot of years. Long story. If you don’t want to read it, skip to photos.
11 years ago or so a lovely lady and her daughter came to our church. The little girl was 6 or 7 and gave her heart to Christ at vacation Bible school. She was an adventurer, into hunting and fishing. She had watched a show on bears and was scared to go in the woods so I gave her a pocket knife. Yeah, I’m the guy that gives 6 year olds knives. The little girl drew me a thank you letter, it was a picture of her killing a bear with her bear knife.
They left the church due to moving further away. I married and life went on. I worked with the mother of my now wife and we all stayed in touch, platonically. I was divorced several years ago.
Last November, the little girl, now a young woman, passed away suddenly from a seizure, she hadn’t had one in years. I had kept the thank you letter on my desk at work all that time. I brought it to the funeral and presented it to her mother. She hugged me and cried, thanked me and told me that it was a comfort knowing she got saved at our church.
We started dating a few months later. We both had daughters the same age… we knew each other well, our family knew each other. We got married in July. We moved in together. It was always nagging that we couldn’t find the pocket knife.
During deer season this year we came across the knife, in a box of art projects, I cleaned it up, put an edge on it, like a razor. My wife had killed a doe but wanted a buck. She joked that we could skin a buck and retire the knife into her dresser drawer. Every hunt I slipped the knife into my wife’s coat pocket, she usually didn’t notice. I wanted her daughter to be a part of each hunt. Finally she bagged a buck. We went to skin it, I told her to check her coat, the knife was there, lots of tears followed. We skinned the buck.
For Christmas I got her deer skull mounted but wanted something special… this is what came out. The original knife mounted with ostrich hide, her first buck and the picture her daughter drew all those years ago, just got the frame to match put up today.
11 years ago or so a lovely lady and her daughter came to our church. The little girl was 6 or 7 and gave her heart to Christ at vacation Bible school. She was an adventurer, into hunting and fishing. She had watched a show on bears and was scared to go in the woods so I gave her a pocket knife. Yeah, I’m the guy that gives 6 year olds knives. The little girl drew me a thank you letter, it was a picture of her killing a bear with her bear knife.
They left the church due to moving further away. I married and life went on. I worked with the mother of my now wife and we all stayed in touch, platonically. I was divorced several years ago.
Last November, the little girl, now a young woman, passed away suddenly from a seizure, she hadn’t had one in years. I had kept the thank you letter on my desk at work all that time. I brought it to the funeral and presented it to her mother. She hugged me and cried, thanked me and told me that it was a comfort knowing she got saved at our church.
We started dating a few months later. We both had daughters the same age… we knew each other well, our family knew each other. We got married in July. We moved in together. It was always nagging that we couldn’t find the pocket knife.
During deer season this year we came across the knife, in a box of art projects, I cleaned it up, put an edge on it, like a razor. My wife had killed a doe but wanted a buck. She joked that we could skin a buck and retire the knife into her dresser drawer. Every hunt I slipped the knife into my wife’s coat pocket, she usually didn’t notice. I wanted her daughter to be a part of each hunt. Finally she bagged a buck. We went to skin it, I told her to check her coat, the knife was there, lots of tears followed. We skinned the buck.
For Christmas I got her deer skull mounted but wanted something special… this is what came out. The original knife mounted with ostrich hide, her first buck and the picture her daughter drew all those years ago, just got the frame to match put up today.
