I spoke for a little girl and her family today.
At what most of us would call a funeral.
But what must be, if we believe what we say we believe,
a celebration of her new life.

As much as we all seem to feel the need to be sad-
today there is a joy that a little girl is free from the cancer
that kept her a prisoner for the past several months.
She's free from pain and hospitals and surgeries...
and she's left her mark on this life and those of us
who have been touched by her courage and her smile.

Tonight there must be quite the celebration in Heaven for Miranda.
Her message to us: This is Life. Live it NOW!
Thanks Miranda.