Today was my, as well as everyone else's, friend funeral and memorial service at CCHS (my high school). The choir, which would include me, sang for the memorial service. That was probably one of the hardest things for me to ever do...I didn't make it thought the whole song...I started crying right in the middle of it and wasn't able to finish singing.
I bet you're all wondering why Johnny was so...honorable...well...to put it short and simply...Johnny was a man of God...like David, he was a man after God's own heart. Johnny was always trying to find ways to get closer to God. I could see him being a pastor. Johnny meant so much to everyone at my school...and to the doctors and nurses that he met. Johnny always wanted to know how a person was...he would ask everyone he met, "how are you?" and he would always have that huge grin on his face...when Johnny would ask you how you were he REALLY wanted to know. Johnny...agaped (Greek would for unconditional love) everyone...even if they were the meanest person on earth...he just loved ppl. Johnny knew his time on earth was a short time...so he lived each day as if it were his last...cuz really...he didn't know when he was going to die...but every time he would visit the doctors he would tell them that he trusted them in whatever they did and that he trusted God.
You’re probably wondering now why he would say this to doctors...well...Johnny had cancer...and he desperately needed a heart and a kidney...unfortunately...they never found a match...but fortunately...they didn't...I say that cuz now he's not in pain...he's not suffering like he was. Johnny wasn't able to do everything a normal kid could do...but he would try. Johnny was not of this world...and you could soooo see that when you saw him smile. Johnny was a man of God...truly. *Sniff* *cries* Johnny loved to sing for God...lol he had even tried out for choir...lol to our ears he didn't sing good...not even a little bit...lol but...to God...it was the most beautiful sound in the world. Now he's has the most beautiful voice ever. He had even tried taking voice lessons...just so he could try again this year. He just wanted to sing for all to hear...and for mostly God.
I remember last year...I was always depressed...and Johnny would just come up to me and just ask me how I was...and me being me I would tell him, "fine..." but Johnny would still just hang around and joke with me until he saw myself to start smiling with him...I remember last year I was new to CCHS and Johnny just came up to me and started talking to me...lol I was like, "uh...I don't even know him...why is this guy talking to me?" lol last year I wasn't an open person...and so...I would sort shove Johnny away from me...but...each time...he would make me think of what's important...God...on the last few weeks b4 Johnny went into the hospital God opened my eyes to REALLY see Johnny as a man of Christ...and who was a true friend....while he was in the hospital I wanted Johnny to get better so bad just so I could get to see what God let me see that last few weeks...sadly...and happily, Johnny went "home" to the Lord March 1, 2005...sometime during the afternoon...it hit everyone at school hard...today was probably the most special day at my school...for once...the WHOLE ENTIRE school acted like a family...a kind loving family...it didn't matter if you were a jock...or a cheerleader...or just someone who was blah...we were all together...acting like a family to each other. At the service, which was beautiful, the family had come and everything...about the entire school came to the service when they could have just gone home and just missed out...but everyone one came...then...at the end a pastor said that they all could leave...but every student waited for the family to leave the building...and then in a line they started to leave. Then at the gravesite, half the school came with the family. It was so beautiful outside. Then...at the end...the pastor said that we could all leave and that some of us could stay and pay our respects to the family. No one moved...then...the family started to hug those getting the respects...and no student from CCHS moved until the family was done...then...once they were...students started forming a single line to give the mother...the father...and a few other family members hugs, if they didn't know them, and words of peace along with hugs, if you did know them...and even after the students were done with all that they waited once again for the family to leave the area and then left to go to the reception...it was so pretty...even if it was in the school's gym...lots of flowers and they had a huge screen playing little things of Johnny...then ppl just started going home...today was a really hard day for everyone...especially me...
I love and miss you Johnny...but I know I’ll see you again one day...ja'ne.
In loving memory...
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In loving memory...
...to a wonderful friend...who would have loved to have met and now knows each and everyone of you. i truly do thank you all for praying for Johnny...this really has been a difficult time for me...anywho...i thought i'd share what i wrote on a different site...but...it's basically the samething that i'd write anywhere else...well...here it goes...
[color="DarkOrange"]"The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things... hey... the good things don't always soften the bad things; but vice-versa the bad things don't necessarily spoil the good things and make them unimportant." -11th Doctor
"The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case." - Chuck Close[/color]
"The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case." - Chuck Close[/color]
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Joshua Christopher - Posts: 1982
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Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
You're friend sounds like he was an awsome guy, and its nice to know that he is in a better place right now, with God ^_^
And God will always be with you C.T. , always.
I'll keep on praying for His Family and yourself.
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I'm very sorry for your loss, c.t.,girl. Your post is really very touching, it sounds like Johnny was really one in a million. There aren't a lot of people like that. It sounds like he was really an example to everyone. It's inspiring. At least we know he is in paradise now. Just be patient, you'll see him again soon enough. 
"For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; and the government will rest on His shoulders; and His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace." - Isaiah 9:6
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I don't know what too say. I'm just crying.
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My Deviant Art
Romans 8:28
And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.
My Deviant Art
Romans 8:28
And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.
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*hug* I'm so sorry......
Sorry for your loss...but also saying congratulations to Johnny, 'cause now He's up there talking with the LORD! 
Sorry for your loss...but also saying congratulations to Johnny, 'cause now He's up there talking with the LORD! Heart of Sword's Rhapsody
Money, get away
Get a good job with good pay and you're okay
And all and all you're just another brick in the wall
Shoutin’ in the street gonna take on the world some day
But Bismallah will not let me go
Because I'll see you on the dark side of the moon
Tommy used to work on the docks
Union's been on strike
Bright eyes burning like fire
And exposing every weakness
However carefully hidden by the kids
Who will love a little Sparrow
Who's traveled far and cries for rest
Spare him his life from this monstrosity
I've seen a million faces and I've rocked them all
And if the band youre in starts playing different tunes
We will we will rock you
We will we will rock you!
[Pink Floyd fan listening to Queen and hugging trees which is also known as taking care of God's creation with a pair of headphones on listening to Nightwish as loud as possible while writing a novel on a computer in the middle of a field filled with Wolves.]
[Bassist...finally learning Money]
Money, get away
Get a good job with good pay and you're okay
And all and all you're just another brick in the wall
Shoutin’ in the street gonna take on the world some day
But Bismallah will not let me go
Because I'll see you on the dark side of the moon
Tommy used to work on the docks
Union's been on strike
Bright eyes burning like fire
And exposing every weakness
However carefully hidden by the kids
Who will love a little Sparrow
Who's traveled far and cries for rest
Spare him his life from this monstrosity
I've seen a million faces and I've rocked them all
And if the band youre in starts playing different tunes
We will we will rock you
We will we will rock you!
[Pink Floyd fan listening to Queen and hugging trees which is also known as taking care of God's creation with a pair of headphones on listening to Nightwish as loud as possible while writing a novel on a computer in the middle of a field filled with Wolves.]
[Bassist...finally learning Money]
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Wow... I knew Johnny. I Graduated CCHS in '03. I only knew him for a short while, but I can say that from the short-time I spent with him that every word is true.
I'll see you again soon, Johnny.
I'll see you again soon, Johnny.
[font="Tahoma"][SIZE="2"]"It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things."
-Terry Pratchett[/SIZE][/font]
-Terry Pratchett[/SIZE][/font]
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o.o OMG! YOU USE TO GO TO CCHS?! O.O >.> wow...this is a small world...yah...all yesterday i was crying...i just...couldn't stop...but...as time will come...i will be ok...
[color="DarkOrange"]"The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things... hey... the good things don't always soften the bad things; but vice-versa the bad things don't necessarily spoil the good things and make them unimportant." -11th Doctor
"The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case." - Chuck Close[/color]
"The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case." - Chuck Close[/color]
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