Comments on: Lightning Strike Death: Remembering Dawn Yoder

By: Pat Mason

Pat Mason — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:03:41 +0000

My heart goes out to Dr. Yoder and his family. 'The Lord gives strength to his people: the Lord blesses His people with strength.' PSALM 29:11 .

By: Louise Wilson

Louise Wilson — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:10:06 +0000

I hurt and ache for Dr. Yoder and his family. I hurt and ache for us who lost her and will not have her here for us at the Meadows. Memories pass from generation to generation. I have been told stories already that happened “a time ago” that I did not know before. I await many more. They heal and bind us together. The hundreds and hundreds who poured out their hearts for her let Dr. Yoder know that his work as a Physician was a true calling of God.

By: Sam and Roxanne Godwin

Sam and Roxanne Godwin — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 06:23:56 +0000

Sam and I want to extend out deepest sympathy to you and your family.

By: Ilva Hertzler

Ilva Hertzler — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:07:33 +0000

Jon and family,
I’m so grateful Dave and I could be there at the service..I listened again to the service last night… the songs, Scripture, thoughts were a blessing. Thanks for taking time to speak to us Saturday AM. I hope you’ll be able to get rest for your body and soul in the days ahead.

LIFE IS ETERNAL

I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength and I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come down to mingle with each other. Then some one at my side says, “There! She’s gone.”

Gone where? Gone from my sight- that is all. She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side, and just as able to bear her load of living freight to the place of destination. Her diminished size is in me, not in her. And just at the moment when someone at my side says, “There! She’s gone”, there are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices ready to take up the glad shout, “There she comes!”

I know Dawn was welcomed with Glad Shouts of Joy in Heaven where there’ll be no lightning strikes, no tears, no death.

Bless you, cousin.

Ilva

By: Harvey Yoder

Harvey Yoder — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:39:02 +0000

Dear Jon and family,

I can’t tell you how many people with whom I’ve shared the story who have expressed their sorrow over Dawn’s life and tragic death.

I’ve thought a lot about a book Paul Nisly wrote over a decade ago, “Sweeping up The Heart” (Good Books) which describes his difficult journey through grief following the death of his only daughter, just graduated with her nursing degree and killed in a head on collision.

The title of the book comes from a poem by Emily Dickinson I also thought about after hearing about Dawn’s death:

The bustle in a house
The morning after death
Is solemnest of industries
Enacted upon earth,–

The sweeping up the heart,
And putting love away
We shall not want to use again
Until eternity.

May God hold you in his healing embrace,

Harvey Yoder
Harrrisonburg, VA

By: J

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:09:09 +0000

MRS. YODER WAS A FINE YOUNG LADY AND WILL BE SURELY MISSED. THEY ART TO NAME THAT STREET AFTER HER AS FAR AS I’M CONCERNED. I MET MRS. YODER LONG TIME AGO AND WHEN I MET HER I SAID NOW THERE IS A GODLY CHRISTIAN LADY AND VARY SWEET LADY AT THAT. EVERY TIME I SPOKE TO MRS. YODER SHE WAS ALWAYS SUPER NICE TO ME. GOD BLESS YOU DR. YODER AND YOU FAMILY. I WAS PROUD TO SEE THAT THE CHURCH WHERE YA;LL HAD THE FUNERAL WAS PACKED OUT. WHAT A WAY TO CELEBRATE A FINE YOUNG LADY’S LIFE. I KNOW MRS. YODER WOULD BE PROUD.

By: G Odom

G Odom — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:45:39 +0000

What a testimonial comment by Dr Yoder, even in his most heartstriken grief, he praises the Lord for the Life of his wife, just as she would have wanted. May god walk with you all through this sad time and allow you to focus on the day you will see her again

By: The Smith Family

The Smith Family — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:49:06 +0000

My Family would like to send out our Prayers to the Yoder Family. May God Bless you all in this time of Sorrow.

By: tata

tata — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:27:47 +0000

i feel sorry

By: Mary Ann Yutzy

Mary Ann Yutzy — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:10:48 +0000

Ah, Jonathan. I remember hot summer days in Delaware, growing up as cousins, and the many, many good times. You spent your summers reading encyclopedias and ingesting as much knowlege as you could. None of us were surprised when you grew up to become a doctor. What we could always count on was your gentle smile, your wit that always made us laugh and never cut, and FAITH — faith that saw you through incredible tragedy when your two younger brothers died in a terrible accident on a Pennsylvania road one Sunday afternoon in April, 1977. Faith that has helped you make decisions and carried you through so many hard times, and the faith that is even now, showing us the way as you’ve made us think about the unthinkable, shown us that God is a present help in time of trouble, that He is to be trusted when it feels like our very world is being shaken. I cannot be there tomorrow, but my heart will be. And while we mourn the passing of an incredible, wonderful, amazing, Godly woman who loved you with all her being, we will also praise the Heavenly Father who has given us the hope of the resurrection, the promise that she is, even now in His presence, and who loved us enough to give us the perfect plan of Salvation so that we KNOW we shall see her again. Blessings, Dear Cousin. You will always see a part of her in those precious children, and the light of her love will be a guide to all of you. May the Hands of the Father hold you steady in these days of grief. Thinking of you all with Love, Mary Ann Yutzy