All Members Must Read This- Tone

[Leah]

I'm so hurt by this news I can't find words to express it. Tone was, as everyone here has already said, sort of the be-all and end-all of VX knowledge and lore. When he and his family were passing through Florida near our house, he took the time to call me and find out if they were close enough for us to meet. Sadly, I was unable to get away and missed my big chance.

To Lisa and other family members and friends, I know you probably have your own beliefs about the future and I sincerely hope they bring you comfort. I want to share my beliefs with you because they bring me comfort and maybe they will help you too.

The Bible holds out the promise of a future earth where death will be no more, where mourning and outcry and pain will be things of the distant past, and no one will ever be sick or die again. But there is even more. A resurrection of those who died will occur and we will get to spend eternity in a paradise earth with those we loved and lost, all of us growing more healthy and youthful every day.

When God made Adam and Eve, he told them to be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it. Essentially, they were to turn the entire earth into an extension of the paradise Eden, which God gave them as a home. Just because Adam and Eve failed to live up to their end of the bargain does not mean that God has changed his mind about a happy, united family inhabiting a paradise earth.

Tone, I look forward to meeting you in Paradise. For you, it feel like but an instant since you closed your eyes in death. For us, it will be one minute dragging into the next. But, until the day you open your eyes again, you will be sorely missed.

Hugs to all.