My deepest thanks to those who have served
and are now serving our country on this
Veterans Day 2009

My heart goes out to the family and friends of this local serviceman
who will be arriving home tomorrow.

                  Spc. Aaron Seth Aamot              

         Aaron Seth Aamot was born on April 12, 1987, in his grandmother’s house on the Guide Meridian, Bellingham, WA.  He was killed in action on November 5, 2009, in Afghanistan.  Aaron was raised in Whatcom County on a small farm in Custer, WA.  He was active in the Critters & Co. 4-H Club and the Ferndale FFA.  The Whatcom Youth Fair and the Northwest Washington Fair were favorite events for Aaron.

            The attacks on September 11, 2001, gave Aaron the determination to serve his country in the armed forces.  After graduating from Ferndale High School in 2006, he went to Basic Training in Fort Benning, Georgia.  After being stationed at Fort Lewis, Aaron enjoyed his role driving a Stryker vehicle in the newly formed 5^th Stryker Brigade.  The 5-2 SBCT deployed in July 2009 to the area around Kandahar.  Aaron was driving his Stryker on a patrol when it hit a buried explosive.

            He is survived by his parents, Mark and Julie (Hinds) Aamot of Custer; siblings, Matthew (Angela), Joshua, Nellie (Ricky) Huisman, Benjamin (Catrina); Dale; Ethan; and Daniel.  Grandparents are the late Arnold Aamot and Charlotte (Reeck) Aamot of Bellingham, and William and Donna (McDougle) Hinds of Sedro-Woolley.

Aaron was a devoted uncle to nephews Elijah, Samuel, Oliver, and Nathaniel, and nieces, Evelyn, Janett, Ella, and Catherine.  He is also survived by many aunts, uncles, and cousins.

Funeral services will be held on Saturday, November 14, 2009, at 1:00 PM, in the Ferndale High School Gymnasium.  The public is invited to attend.  A graveside service will be held at Haynie Cemetery immediately following.

Those wishing to honor Aaron’s memory and service may do so at any ICU branch where a fund has been started to benefit the 4-H Youth Programs in Whatcom County.  Aaron’s family also requests that the community keep the soldiers who are still in harm’s way and their families in prayer.

Arranged by Moles Family Funeral Homes & Crematory

He Keeps All That Is Made

 He showed me a little thing, the size of a hazelnut, in the palm of my hand, and it was as round as a ball.  I looked at it with my minds eye and I thought, ‘What can this be?’  And answer came, ‘It is all that is made.’  I marveled that it could last, for I thought it might have crumbled to nothing, it was so small.  And the answer came into my mind, ‘It lasts and ever shall because God loves it.’  And all things have being through the love of God.

In this little thing I saw three truths.  The first is that God made it.  The second is that God loves it.  The third is that God looks after it.

What is he indeed that is maker and lover and keeper?  I cannot find words to tell.  For until I am one with him I can never have true rest nor peace.  I can never know it until I am held so close to him that there is nothing in between.

This publication was offered in 1980 by The Julian Shrine to honor the event of the commemoration of Mother Julian, born in 1342, as a saint in the Church of England.  During severe illness in 1373, Julian received the series of sixteen 'shewings' of our Lord.    For twenty years Julian meditated on the visions she had received, and recorded them and their meaning as The Revelations of Divine Love. It is the first book known to be written by a woman in English.  Julian insists in her teaching that we should see God primarily as all loving.  'Would'st thou know the Lord's meaning in this thing?  Know it well.  Love was his meaning.'