Feathers from Heaven

Those of you reading this that are my family, and also friends that are on Facebook have likely heard about my cousin Zack.  Zack fell from a 70 foot cliff on Friday (9/20) while hiking and is currently in Critical Condition.  Zack has suffered from a traumatic brain injury along with other injuries from the fall.

I'm just asking that you keep him in your thoughts and prayers.  As a mother, I have such mixed emotions going through my head right now  -- with my pregnancy and other things as I pray for the healing of Zack.

My due date is actually Zack and his sibling's birthday (10/13).  Zack is a triplet...and I used to babysit these wonderful kiddos when they were younger.  Now, they are all grown up, Melena just graduating from college and Zack and Luke just a few semesters away from doing the same...

Zack, Melena, and Luke

 Anyway - I know that some of you reading my site have all too much familiarity with what we are going through in my family, given Aaron's cousin Dustin's injuries from his accident back in November of 2005.  That being said, Dust's strength, determination, and outstanding recovery gives me hope and peace as I wait to hear the status of Zack.  (for those of you that may not be familiar with Dustin, he was our best man at our wedding...and at the time he had recently suffered a traumatic brain injury from a car accident...his recovery from then to now is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G and we are so proud and thankful of this!)

Anyway - please pray for my cousin, and if you are interested, updates can be found on him at http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/zacknelson.

I have an awesome little story that I need to document (and the reason for my title of this blog post)...my grandpa Bob told my aunt Nancy (Zack's mom) that he would send feathers from heaven when he passed.  My entire family often sees feathers and of course think of my grandpa.

Today, when I was walking into work, completely distracted by my thoughts of Zack, I had a huge black feather stop me in my tracks as I had to step over it when I was walking in...then a block later another feather was in my path - and last but not least a 3rd feather was near the entrance of my building on my way into work!

How cool is that??!!!

I sooooo needed that sign from my grandpa that him and my grandma are with us, watching over Zack and our family.  <3 p="">