Simon Andrew Caquelin 9/13/10-02/05/18

When Lindsay died in 2003 our funeral director shared this quote with us...We adapted it to reflect our loss of Lindsay. I have taken the liberty to do the same for Simon. The death of a child is so difficult and close to our hearts this day as Lois and I share their grief and loss. All our love and prayers pour out to the Caquelin family.
Tedd and Lois

“Here, in a nutshell, is what it means to understand something as a gift and to handle it with gratitude, a perspective biblical religion puts around all of life. And I am here to testify that this is the only way down from the Mountain of Loss. I do not mean to say that such a perspective makes things easy, for it does not. But at least it makes things bearable when I remember that Simon was a gift, pure and simple, something I neither earned nor deserved nor had a right to. And when I remember that the appropriate response to a gift, even when it is taken away, is gratitude, then I am better able to try and thank God that I was ever given him in the first place.” 

Quote from Tracks of a fellow struggler by John Claypool, pg. 82, Word Publisher, 1974.  (We have edited the text by using Simon’s name to replace his daughter’s name in the original text.)