On the Person of Tom Gilson

My Cousin Tom Gilson died last night.
He is survived by his wife Carlene and his 3 children.
Tom was a great guy and he was my confirmation sponsor when I was 12.
I saw him this summer for the 1st time in around 8 years. He was still fun, life and all of it's daily hassels had not dragged him down.
There will be no mass mournings for Tom, no news stories nor any large funural processions.
Tom was a normal guy, he had a normal job and a normal family.
In death he wil continue that tradition.
But I will remember him as the teenager who taught me how to swing a baseball bat
as a man who helped guide a boy in matters of the spirit
and as a father who showed me life is just getting started at 30.

My hopes that he was in Heaven an hour before the Devil knew him dead.