Welcome To Our Tribute

Trees for CJ is a tree planting program started by Chad & Maggie Godhard in honor and memory of their son Christopher Jordan Godhard  "CJ" who was born on March 15, 2008 and passed away on April 24, 2008.  Please help us honor CJ  by planting a tree in his memory. We would love it if you would post a picture of your tree on our Facebook page here www.facebook.com/groups/61119241948/ or by emailing us. If you would like to learn more about CJ’s miraculous 40 days and 40 nights of life here on Earth, please visit our Caring Bridge page www.caringbridge.org/visit/christopherjordangodhard

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​CJ'S MOVIE

CJ & big brother Noah

Trees for CJ sketch by Noah, 2018

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Think Like a Tree 
by Karen A. Shragg

Soak up the sun
Affirm life’s magic
Be graceful in the wind
Stand tall after a storm
Feel refreshed after it rains
Grow strong without notice
Be prepared for each season
Provide shelter to strangers
Hang tough through a cold spell
Emerge renewed at the first signs of spring
Stay deeply rooted while reaching for the sky
Be still long enough to
hear your own leaves rustling.

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​Loveliest of Trees 
by A. E. Housman

​Loveliest of trees, the cherry now 
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.

Now, of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,
It leaves me fifty more.

And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the woodlands I will do
​To see the cherry hung with snow.

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Ode: Intimations of Immortality 
by William Wordsworth

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar:
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home:
Heaven lies about us in our infancy!

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There are some who
bring a light So
great to the 
world
that even after they
have Gone,
the light remains.