Joy at the Car Dealership!
I'm always amazed at the
impression Joshua left! Earlier last year I was inside a car dealership. In talking to the manager, he mentioned he lived in Pleasant Grove. He seemed close to my age so I said that his kids might have known my older boys. We talked about their ages and names, and they definitely had gone to school together. But then once I mentioned Joshua, and his disability of severe autism and how he was the one who said hi to everyone, he excitedly said to me that he knew exactly who we were! He said he would see us at the Pleasant Grove basketball games and I was the one always chasing Joshua around. (I know that chasing a 6'1" tall handsome young man was certainly not easy to miss!)
I was truly touched because I could tell that he really enjoyed seeing Joshua at the basketball games, and because he was so sad when he heard that Joshua had died.
I will always love talking to people who knew and loved my special Joshua boy! And this can happen even at a car dealership!
