Journey with Hope

Something terrible has happened to someone I love and he needs our help. My nephew Jarrod Wade Fyffe is going through the toughest time in his life. His best friend was shot by a high powered riffle on Sunday Evening around 5:00 pm. He later died do to injuries he sustained.

Jarrod's 911 call was on a Columbus TV station this morning, as I listened to Jarrod's voice I cried. Hearing the pain in his voice. Knowing his friend was dying and he could not do anything about it. He waited with Nate for an hour before help came.

Not being able to imagine the pain and grief this eighteen year old is going through. He is a great kid with so much going for him. He needs to know we all LOVE him.

Seeing Jarrod yesterday words can't explain how helpless I felt. Wishing you could take the pain away and knowing you can't was undescribable. My heart ached as we talked and cried together. He is so young but he has experienced something that will live with him the rest of his days.

I ask all who read this to keep him in your prayers and please reach out to him. A word of comfort for the days approaching him. Just one word to say I'm sorry for your loss and I love you can help so much.

This new journey Jarrod is on will be the hardest road he has ever walked on this earth. As a teenager I to lost a very close friend on Sept 6, 1990. She died in a car crash. But my grief could not compare to what he is feeling. I wasn't with her when she died.

I know God gives us strength to go through these things and he will never put more on us than we can bare. But their is something each of us can do. We can reach out and go on this journey with Jarrod. We can help by just being a friend. Listening, wiping a tear, and showing him we love him.

Jarrod has so many mixed emotions. And he needs everyone in his family, my family, your family to show they care. My prayer is that everyone who knows him will reach out in his time of need. Show some type of concern and love to him. He needs it. It helps I'm sure. Everyone in their life has done things wrong. It helps to have those who love us to reach out.

We help strangers and when a crisis comes in our own families we tend to step back and miss blessings of helping the very ones we hold dearest in our hearts.

My message today is to reach out to him in some type of way. Maybe just a silent prayer, maybe it be a call and let him know you care. He needs to know we all love him and are praying for him. Maybe send a card of Sympathy. Please speak up and let him know he is not alone in his journey and there is hope.

If you want his address just ask I will provide it to you. As well as his phone number. If you want to send a card of sympathy don't think it will not matter because it does. Some little something means a great amount of encouragment when your the one grieving. He needs us lets be there for him.

Thanks so much to everyone who reads this and takes time out of their busy schedules to show they care and give him a sense of Hope. His journey will be hard but together we all can make a difference in the life of a child.

Belinda Fyffe