Special Memories - Provo River Trail Bridge

Special Memories - Provo River Trail Bridge



Provo River Trail Bridge

 This bridge, along the Provo River Trail,  is a sacred place for the memory and experience we had here.  It was our first year in Provo, Utah, and our neighbors and church friends were still getting to know Joshua. 

Picture a 6'1", skinny, handsome young man with his protective helmet, excited and enthusiastic to be at the river and on the bridge!  This was one of his favorite places.



A re-enactment of the video tape!

Picture also many wonderful people with their dinners and desserts, socializing and enjoying the beautiful surroundings.
Of course, Joshua is holding his precious video tape, his "security blanket" and entertainment (if it makes it home in one piece!).

Picture now the irresistible urge Joshua has on this beautiful bridge, to toss, with joy, glee and strength, that precious video tape clean down into the middle of the river!  No surprise to me, his Mom.  But the faces of the people around us were definitely startled and confused.

I remember the kindness of a sensitive young man, who promptly took off his shoes, walked into the river, and picked up that video tape to return it to Joshua.  His mother was a little concerned that he walked suddenly into the river, but I quickly assured her that he was helping me with Joshua.  (I could not leave him along to walk into the river myself.)

Of course the challenge, as always, was that when the video tape was returned to him, he just might throw it again!  But that was the endless, wonderful, cycle that I miss so much, every day!