Tomorrow, 4/9/2021 Will Be The 45th Anniversary Of My Brother Ricky Going To Be With Jesus. I Planted Some Flowers Today In Memory Of Him..

It almost seems like yesterday when we received the news of the fatal boating accident near the Bermuda Triangle area. Seven people on board the boat, 4 life preservers. Four survived the storm and 3 perished in the water. Never to be found. When the boat crashed and boke up the survivors said they heard my brothers voice up until a point and then they no longer heard him. 

One of my favorite flowers is the gardenia. When I plant one for some reason it does not make it through the season. That is why I learned to purchase them either through Home Depot or Lowe's because there is a 1 year guarantee on this plant since it is not an annual. When they bloom the fragrance is delightful. I pick the blossoms and place them in little vases or do a grouping of them floating in water in a container. I then got a 2nd favorite of mine. It is a bright colored cone shaped flower that grows taller and keeps its vibrant red/orange color as it grows. I felt an urgency to purchase both today and plant them as it was getting dusk tonight so they were in place already for my brothers anniversary. I talked with my mom this evening and I joked with her that if they do not grow this season and I planted them in honor of Ricky that I was going to seek him out when I got to heaven and we were going to have a talk about this.

Can I share something honest with you? I just completed my deliverance recently and both of my brothers were on my list of unforgiveness (people I had to forgive) for the years they teased my sister and I. They are both deceased now and sometimes we tend to place deceased relatives on a pedestal and kind of elevate them as wonderful people. There is nothing wrong in honoring the memory of a loved one. You tend to remember the wonderful things about them but in reality they were not perfect people. None of us are perfect and that is why I daily ask forgiveness and for Jesus to cleanse me, cover me with the blood of Jesus. Once my heart is dealt with (is right with Jesus) I then go on to pray for my family, friends and President Trump & President Biden. I think I may still have a little tribute to my brother I posted before and will share it again.

This was actually a tribute to him on his birthday. That's me as a little child in the other pictures. The picture of him in the tuxedo is when my sister and I were in The Croatian Debutante Ball the February before he was in the boating accident.