Subject: My deepest sympathies
From: "John Hamre" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2015 16:13:12 +0000

Dear Hunter and Kathleen:
My heart has been aching for you and your family these days as you celebrate the life of Beau.  The Good Lord gave us one great blessing.  God gave us the ability to remember joy, but not pain.  We might remember that something was a painful experience, but the agony fades with time and becomes only a distant memory.  But joy can be made fresh and vibrant with the recounting.  Small things will bring it all back with just as much happiness as before.  This is God's gift to us.  Right now your pain is intense as you mourn the passing of such a fine man.  But your memories of him will come back time and again, and the happiness will be genuine and fresh.

I know that you are a storng family, strong in faith.  Remember the promise Paul gave us in his letter ot the Ephesians:  God will never test us beyond our strength to endure, and in the testing, He will make us stronger.

Mighty prayers for you all during these difficult days.

With sincere sympathies,
John Hamr