Message

From Aunt Lu

Nephew Brian, The dear,

My thoughts of you both make me smile, and make me reach for a big hug.

The way you managed to be present on the day Ron and I married one another was quite a wonder (at 4.5 months pre-birth)! That was a small and special party, blessed in many ways, including the presence of a little person coming along into Brian-ness at a dynamic and heart-warming pace!

Your loving brother-ness and son-ness have so many treasurable aspects. You have, and we share, a great trove of early times and memories. These all come along with us, nourishing a multitude of relationships in our God family today. Who would ever have guessed at all the brother- and sister- and parent- and child-like blessings waiting for us in the wings?

As I think back, it seems to me that words are like a bountiful garden, or perhaps more like a generous fountain in your life. Your gift for receiving and understanding words is quite rare. This pairs with your indubitable talent for true and nuanced verbal expression, to make a veritable confluence of crystalizing meanings! Since I have also inherited some of those same word-loving genes, I particularly cherish your gifts from the garden/fountain!

I wish for you wholeness, peace, shelter, adventure, and awe. I love you very much, and will always be

From Drake

Drake

Happy birthday to a friend I couldn’t be luckier to know. Brian, I’m truly blessed to have you in my life and it’s by his will that our friendship will continue. Thank you for always checking in on me, being a patient listener, and supporting me in my weekend habit when you do. I hope that today is a great day for you of celebration, rejoice, and relaxation.

From Kirsten & Yeates Family

Happy Birthday to one of the kindest people I’ve ever met! There’s brilliance, and creativity behind all of your affable humility. What you are able to do every day for those around you continues to inspire me. I miss working with you Brian!

I hope this year you can celebrate the amazing wife you have (she’s awesome and probably the best mom I’ve ever met, and yet somehow she isn’t out of your league). I hope your birthday can be celebrated with cake and family time and some small blessings of good news with Asher’s health and Addison’s fun personality.

We feel far away but are always thinking of you and your amazing family and just last week we went to visit a friend at the hospital- Alison was thrilled which seemed odd and then beamed and said “will we see baby Asher?” I told her, luckily, no, Asher is at home with mommy and daddy 🙂

From The Cronin Family

Brian and kyle

 

Brian!!! Happy Birthday! Hope you have a wonderful day! We want to tell you how special you are to us, and how extremely blessed we have been to share so many years and memories together!!! You are an incredibly Godly man, and we are astounded by your kindness and the joy you bring to those around you. What a great example you are to us!!! Happy birthday, friend!!!

From Cody

So Brian.

Once again someone near and dear to us has asked me to talk about you,once again I do not know were to start I was thinking  most people use there birthday to  for reflecting I could  talk about how tumultuous your year has been, but I am sure being that you were there for all of it you know what happened  I doubt I could say anything that has not been said already. I am reminded   of your ability to with stand all manners of  craziness and some how still be able to show compassion though all of it . proven not only from the events of this year but from that  brief time time we lived together  and its something I have always admired about you and I would hope you know this by now …..

You know what  to hell with the past you know were you been and we have talked about it to death .

I guess what to do is give you a odd bit of advice  when you read this you should stop and take a moment of your birthday and consider all of the things   yet to come some them will be hard some of them will be the result of things you might not of even considered before  but I promise  most of it will be very very good   take this moment   get excited for what comes next and take a deep breath.

Your comrade

Cody
P.S: There might be sentence or two missing but this is the first time I have finished something I started writing.

From Dan Bode

My brother/son in Christ,
So another year gone by, and one that has certainly seen significant events.  The thing about all this is that you have come through this a better man.  Others will often fail in their walk in light of these kind of things, but you have made significant strides toward being the man God made you to be.  This is a process that lasts a lifetime, and I am truly amazed at how you have drawn closer to God through everything.  Thank you for being a blessing, and an example, to me and everyone else!
Happy Birthday!