Danielle Woldt: A Lifetime of Adventure and a Legacy of Love

"Goodness of God" music courtesy of CeCe Winans and Pure Springs Gospel. Available on iTunes.

I created this to honor the love of my life at her Celebration of Life service.

The very first shot of the stars is from Glacier National Park, three years after her diagnosis and more than two years before she entered the heavenly realm. We set an alarm to wake us up in the tent at 12:30 am. We then walked hand in hand down to the lake to gaze upon the milky way in the peaceful solitude we alone shared. We captured this photograph together.

I snapped the first photo you'll see of Danielle during our very first month long tent camping trip to the Grand Canyon when our daughter was just three years old. Then hiking “The Narrows” of Zion National Park. Followed by breakfast at a Safari Lodge in the remote Ishasha region of Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda, East Africa - near where we slept in our tents the night before while two lions roared outside. Then an anniversary pic from a Plantation home in Natchez, Mississippi. I can tell dramatic, heartfelt stories about each and every image.

There are reasons for all the scenes I chose. Many of which will remain between Danielle and I.

You will see photographs from the USA, Canada, Africa, Istanbul, Turkey, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, Italy and France. You will see the first photo we ever took together before we were married, and you will see the triumphant return of our son to Louisiana on Christmas Eve, about 4 months after he had been given up for dead in a horrific motorcycle accident.

What you will see the most, and you will witness oozing out of every photograph and each video clip, is the very essence of love. You are about to witness two people who grew up in very different parts of the country, who were brought together by divine providence, to love greatly and be greatly loved.

The song I selected speaks loudly of Danielle’s relationship with God. We walked together by faith for a third of a century, and God himself was with us. We lived, and we loved, each day, and did not waste a single one.

After a third of a century of sharing love, I still feel hers in my heart, and rest assured, I miss her as passionately as I love her.

Please enjoy this tribute to the love of my life. She's gone on ahead, and I'll be along later.

"A lifetime of Adventure, and a Legacy of Love.”