Nostar got caught on his bike in a heavy downpour west of Burlington Washington and "Put the bike down." He is hurt badly and is in Harborview Medical Center, dusted off from the scene of the accident yesterday afternoon, about 4:00PM, His beloved step-daughter and enthusiastic First Mate of the Zepheniah and Acting Boson on the Denjim expired in the incident instantaneously and without suffering. She was a bright and cheery 12 year old. Her adopted Grandma, my wife, Mrs Dd and her had that morning been birthday shopping for school clothes, and she was on her way to see Grandma in Everett with Dad before heading back over the hump to their home in Eastern Washington.
They had made the trip many a time before. Now our Little J is Home for sure, forever secure in the arms of Jesus.
Nostar was coherent six hours after the accident when we talked on the phone for a short spell. He remembers nothing of it. His injuries include lacerated liver, bleeding in the skull, broken ribs. At the present he is on the phone with a friend, so I assume he has navigated the day successfully. Many are praying for him.
KOMO News has it that the accident went down when Nostar struck the stopped car in front of him at an intersection throwing the bike with riders aboard into oncoming traffic where a van struck them throwing Little J into the path of another van. We thank the Lord that the end for her was sudden, that it was devoid of extended suffering, that it happened during what she and her dad liked to do best. He called her, affectionately, his shadow. He trained her up in righteousness and she dwells now in the House of the Lord forever.
She certainly put a good measure of delight in this old codger's life.
Pray for NoStar, believing friends.
Dd
