RIP Nathan

Nathan,

My heart is broken that your life was cut so short. You were a talented, funny, incredibly caring and loving soul that everyone who knew you, will truly miss. I am so sad that you will not get to spread your kind spirit to all the people you were supposed to meet in this life.


It doesn't seem real that you are gone. Our family, no matter how chaotic and preoccupied we get with our own individual lives sometimes, seems like it's one puzzle piece short without you. We've yet to lose someone, never thinking it would happen to our own family, and so it seems so unreal. Last night, I found out you had passed via a voicemail, and fully realized it after talking to my mother. After, I curled up in a ball on my bed and cried, as if the floor had been pulled out from beneath me. I eventually went out for fresh air, and then sat up for hours drinking hot tea and trying to comprehend why it had happened.


The Lord found me last night in my sorrows, and through my faith, consoled me that you were in a better place now; walking with him.
Of the many, many things I could have been proud of you for in this life, it was your personal relationship with the Lord, and last night he reminded me of that. You steadfastly held Jesus in your heart with every step you took in life, and I looked up to you and your family while finding my own path with him just a few years ago.


Nathan, you will be forever missed.


2Timothy 2:11-13
if we have died with Him, then we shall live with Him
if we persevere, then we shall reign with Him
if we disown Him, then He will disown us.

if we are faithless, He is faithful still
for He cannot disown His own self.


To my family:
I am devasted by our loss and I wish I were there with you. I am praying and thinking about all of your, especially the Neahrings, every moment I get.
Always remember that:

Psalms 34:18

The LORD is near to the brokenhearted
and saves the crushed in spirit.


I love you.

Shannon