You don’t need a lot to make a change in this world. I have learned through this awesome loss that sometimes all it takes is a good light to see what you may have normally missed, the courage to have a conversation you would normally avoid, and a few great friends that support you in all you are trying to accomplish.

“Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm... As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.”
Audrey Hepburn


“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
George Eliot


“The real test of character is whether you will do the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay.”
Michael Josephson

As the walk approaches I am truly beginning to see the importance of what we are walking for. We are not only walking for awareness but for those that can no longer walk for themselves. For the lives that the Yamaha Rhino and other ATV's have erased away or forever changed. I want to walk for J.T., and for Sonny, and for Allie. I want to walk for Brandon and Tynan, Brooklyn and Dwight. I want to walk for Wyatt, and Benjamin, and Whitney. I want to walk for each and every story I’ve heard, for every life changed. I want to walk so that no more lives are changed in this way and I will.

Seven year old girl injured in Rhino accident, emergency surgery on her arm ,knee, and ankle, 7 surgeries to right foot. Eighteen year old girl dies November 26, 2006 in Rhino accident. Ten year old girl dies when she was ejected from the Yamaha Rhino Delton, Michigan. Dwight Grimes has to choose to keep or amputate his leg after a Rhino accident.
I have been online this morning for about five minutes searching Yamaha Rhino accidents and this is what I've found if I had ten more minutes I'm sure I could list ten more lives the Yamaha Rhino has affected. How many more surgeries have to be preformed? How many more people have to die for a change to be made? It's time to say enough already.

Yesterday I watched a young man on J.T.'s football team score a touchdown and as he ran by me on the sideline I saw my son. I saw his long stride and his beautiful smile. It warms my heart to know that the people in my life carry J.T. with them just as I do. I try to see the world in the same ways J.T. did now...stopping to look at a butterfly, picking a flower or smiling at a stranger. Looking at the world like a 9 year old would still amazed by it's beauty and still in awe of what God made. I read that even people who don't have an opportunity to hear God's word can see it in nature. I have found this to be true. If we can all stop to see the world through J.T.'s eyes then we will see what a wonderful world he experienced in his time, and gave me the gift to experience while I'm here.