July 12, 1953 -- September 22, 1999
I don't understand you, God.
I don't understand your timetables
where the living dead live on and long to die
and one so young, so filled with life and love is gone.
I have to deal with sorrow in my own way.
From the crest of a skier's hill, I need to race the pain
out run the tears
rush past the anger and the loss --
but the speed of grief transcends my need
and leaves me spent and lonely still.
Now on this frozen, silent hill,
I lay my grief before you to be healed.
Lord, I can find no answers, help me to find acceptance.
Though the pain remains,
let the new day begin for me without bitterness.
Marilee Zdenek From: "God is a Verb!"
Nancy Moll Papenberg.
Dennis and Nancy were
married on
November 30th, 1974
St. John's Lutheran Church in Red Bud, Illinois
He was baptized there on July 26th, 1953
He was confirmed there on March 19th, 1967.
For those of us that love him and miss him, this is
assurance to us that we will be with him again in
God's Kingdom.
