Everyone is sending their condolences.. but I want to send my love and strength. Life is the stairs up to heavens gate. when we get to the top we have in GODS eyes learned everything he feels we needed to know. My sister once told me that people come into your life for a reason, they might stay for a while or a life time.. but they enter to teach, speak, laugh, cry, or just wisper something that we will remember for the rest of our walks up heaven stairs. But once we learn what we need from those friends they are gone. We might even teach them something.. we might be what they need.. but once someone has entered your journey up heavens stairs your life is changed forever.. wheather it is a good memory or a bad one.. our lives are changed. I once told my Bestfriend April Waugh when she kept asking herself the question "WHY" I simply said to her.. we won't know that answer til the gates of heaven open and GOD is before us.. but what is in front of us is the time for saddness, greivence, and loss. But we have memories that will last forever.. and that is what keeps us going forward.. the only thing that keeps us standing still is the heartache we feel for the loss.. but death is not final.. death is when all our answers to life is answered.. and us who are still living life down here.. have to adjust to the loss.. of not seeing the person who GOD opened his gates to.. Nick is in by far a better place right now.. he is flying with his wings spread wide.. smiling over each and everyone of us. Never once sheading a tear.. or healing a cut.. he is perfect in every way .. like in the smiling photographs that each and everyone of us keep in our minds.. and hearts.. the ones that scroll throughout our myspaces, our cell phones.. and our homes.. we were truly blessed by one of GODS angels.. and it was time for him to let him fly free within the gates of heaven.. one day when we reach the gates.. everyone that we knew and who touched our lives will be standing there with wings ready to guide us through eternal life.. I send my deepest condolences to his family and friends.. and his girlfriend.. the one he found love with... I hope that my words and insight might help you with pain.. I am not saying in this message..that time will heal your pain.. because it won't.. but the adjustment that we all make will ease it a little everyday.. please know that everyone in this town.. loved and enjoyed him.. and we are all blessed to have known him.. wether it be from a distance.. or up close and personal..either way.. we all knew him in our own special way.. and that in itself is a blessing.. may GOD wrap his love around you.. and may NICK wrap his wings around your hearts forever.. GOD BLESS..