The Next Best Thing

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Cornell passed away today, just a little while ago. Yesterday my sister said. "We didn't know that when we started climbing Cornell's Mountain with him, that it was going to be the stairway to Heaven." So, this is where we can't go with him any farther. But he won't blaze this trail alone. His parent were there to greet him, and a brother, friends and I suspect another. 

After his surgery in July, when Cornell wanted to change his occupation, I didn't tell you that he was going to become a pilot. He asked me to look up Sky West to see if they were taking applications. In college he took flight lessons. He even had the back cut out of his shirt, the ceremony for a first solo flight. Life took over and he wasn't able to finish. . . until today. He got his wings.

I Can Only Imagine







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