Sally Bolderson: Home

Today we buried my brother, Bill. Every situation in life brings a blessing, even the saddest event you can imagine.

One blessing, was the bringing together in a very close knitted fashion our family. We are all experiencing the same pain, yet we are also supporting each other. Over the past 2 weeks I have grown closer to everyone in my family from my mom down to my great nieces and everyone in between. I cannot comprehend the depth of my love for each one of them.

Secondly, I chose the challenge to sing for Bill's funeral mass....my gift to him. Where I was to stand was near the Mary altar. About 10 minutes before they were to arrive the pastor came to me to question the "liturgical correctness" of the meditation song I was planning to sing (I Can Only Imagine) and I lost it, I broke down and lost all my strength I had mustered up all morning to make sure I made it through the mass. After conversation back and forth, he allowed me to sing it after all; but my heart was broken and I couldn't stop crying. I sat before our Mother, Mary and prayed for her intercession for strength, to be able to do this for my family and Bill. I asked her to put her mantle over me.

At that time a friend came and put his arms around me and with his loving humor got me laughing just in time to start Mass.

These little miracles are all around us, thank you Jesus for your unending love for all of us and Mother Mary for your intercession today.

My brother, Bill, went home to Jesus on Friday, June 26th. In this time I wrack my brain trying to remember the details of our childhood together and as we grew older, but my mind is numb. The one thing I know is that I love you so much Bill and will miss you dearly.

William J. Huesgen, Jr.
2/17/52 to 6/26/09

Rest is peace with the Lord!

Over the years I have tried to take in stride the various issues in life that cause strife whether they be as mundane as cars breaking down to life threatening illness.

I am blessed to have been raised in the Catholic faith and more importantly to have developed a loving relationship to Jesus in the Trinity and Mary deep in my heart in recent years.

This morning as I listened to the Gospel and Jesus told me that to get into the Kingdom you must go the narrow road, I prayed that these crosses I have tried to endure with Him in his own Crucifixion are part of this narrow road.

At this writing, not only do I continue to recover from my own illness but my older brother, Bill, is in the Intensive Care Unit at Barnes Hospital with bleeding issues secondary to cirrrhosis of the liver (newly diagnosed). They say he has lost all of his own blood and is now being sustained by transfusions. He will undergo several procedures today to narrow down the various problems and my prayer is that God surrounds my brother and his doctors with his angels to see him through this. I also pray for his children who are going through the most traumatic time in their young lives. They are all in their 30's.