Weston Luke Guiltner
December 20th, 2006-September 16th, 2008
There aren’t many times in life where I’m speechless. There are less times which I’m brought to tears. Today, unfortunately, both have happened.
I have posted “RIP” blogs before, all pertaining to celebrities. Never in a million years would I have expected to have to write one about this amazing child. On September 16th, 2008, Weston Luke Guiltner left this world. You know, it is just like a friend of mine said: “He must have been really special if God needed him again,” and he was. He really was.
I had the privilege of being around this boy for the first 5 months of his life, during rehearsals and State competition. He was always so happy. I remember, during competition, he would just crack up whenever he heard the word “lunch”. Then he spit up in Sean Kerrigan’s lunch…and just laughed about it. And made us all bust our sides laughing. He was the typical “bundle of joy” which people use to describe babies all the time, and then some. Even when the Guiltners moved away from us, you just knew how much of a great kid he was through the blog posts Clay posted about him. I can’t remember a picture of Weston where he wasn’t smiling.
For those who don’t know this, Clay Guiltner was the drama instructor for our school, which is why Weston was at all of our rehearsals and State competition. Today, our drama troupe all found out about Weston together, and we all reacted in the same way. Anger, sadness…then reminiscence. Then, joy. Weston was, and still is, an honorary member of Troupe 4061, and we all knew that he wouldn’t want us to be sad for him. He would want us to laugh, and smile, which he had us do everytime we saw his face.
The (horribly edited) picture above is, unfortunately, the only one I have with me and Weston in it. Now I will cherish this picture forever. And everytime I see it, I will look right at Weston, and smile, thinking about him cheering us all on in Heaven, saying: “We’re number one, Troupe 4061!”
My thoughts and prayers go out to the Guiltner family, and everyone in the Troupe is keeping you all in our thoughts, and in our hearts.
