Specials thanks to Pastor Walker

for

conducting the beautiful service.

Thank you for coming.

We are here to celebrate the life of Michael Steven Waste
He was born Nov. 21, 1952 and he passed away peacefully in his sleep June 1, 2007.

Michael had spent the last few years with his family in California. Michael moved to California to try and improve his health. He had been having difficulty fully recovering from his back surgery from 6 years ago.

Michael was a very special person. He always made friends wherever he traveled and lived and once you were a friend he consider you a friend for life. Many of his friends from High school whom he surfed and did motto-cross racing with were still in touch.

From the San Fernando Valley to Mammoth Mountain and then to Vail Colorado, Michael made friends all along the way.
Since his death there has been such an outpouring of cards and letters to his Mother and Father. Many with stories of Michael opening up his house to friends in time of need and being supportive of them as they went through rough times.

Michael had an open heart to all his friends. His friends in many ways became his family. They in turn looked after Michael and where always there for him.

Michael had his own business: Modern Floors of Vail. He did most of his work in Vail, Avon and Beaver Creek area. Besides doing tile and flooring he also was a builder and developed the Bristol Pines town homes in Avon.

In 2005 while Michael was in California he enjoyed helping long time friend Randy Wastal build his house in Encinitas.

While working on the project in Encinitas, Michael would stop in at the
Self-Realization Fellowship and read about Yogananda's teachings.
Michael was raised with a Christian background and added the practice of Transcendental Meditation since he was in his early teens.
Michael knew there was a God and always said his family would be together on earth and after death.

Michael was a hard worker and loved what he did. But Michael also loved his sports. Starting with surfing and moto-cross as a kid, Michael love to ride his dirt bikes and do moto-cross racing with his friends. When he moved to Mammoth Mt. Michael enjoyed racing in the Mammoth Mt. moto-cross race sponsored by Dave McCoy.
Michael's next passion was snow skiing and he lived in Mammoth for many years before coming to Vail. He enjoyed being a member of the local extreme ski team "The Ravinos."

While in Vail, Michael learned to bare foot ski. He had a boat with a ski-bar on the side of it that was used for first timers and learning to barefoot ski. He enjoyed teaching his friends to ski so much that later he started a business called Centurion Sports, where he taught kids how to water ski.

Michael decided he needed to learn to fly and was very proud the day he soloed and got his pilots license. Michael would fly every chance he got and was always very excited when he had time to take the plane out.

Michael's sister told me a story about when they went to Fiji scuba diving. When they approached the little island airport Michael looked out the window and asked his brother-in-law John where the pilot was going to land? John pointed to the long strip of grass with what seemed to be a shallow lake of water on it and said "there." Michael got a kick out of the small twin engine King air Turboprop setting down at the edge of the grass runway and throwing up a roaster tail of water for a few hundred feet as they landed.

Michael will be missed by his family and friends.
He was the one who always wanted to make time to get together and have fun. Whether it was skiing, flying or barbecuing with his family Michael was always happiest when he was surrounded by those he loved.

1 Corinthians 13

If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part; but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an man, I put an end to childish ways. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love. (1 Corinthians 13:1-13)

At this time we would ask any that would like to come forward and share a story of Michael to do so.

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by Anne Davison

1974

Don't grieve for me, for now I'm free
I'm following the path God laid for me.
I took His hand when I heard him call;
I turned my back and left it all.

I could not stay another day,
To laugh, to love, to work or play.
Tasks left undone must stay that way;
I found that place at the close of day.

If my parting has left a void,
Then fill it with remembered joy.
A friendship shared a laugh, a kiss;
Ah yes, these things, I too will miss.

Be not burdened with times of sorrow
I wish you the sunshine of tomorrow.
My life's been full, I savored much;
Good friends, good times, a loved ones touch.

Perhaps my time seems all to brief;
Don't lengthen it now with undue grief.
Lift up your heart and share with me,
God wanted me now, He set me free.

Michael, this has been the hardest thing I have had to do. I hate it

that you are gone. I thought you were suppose to be around for many

more years. I thought we had more to do together. I was wrong,

it was your time to leave. I met some of your friends. You were right, you do have the coolest friends. They love you and miss you too. I saw the double rainbow about 20 minutes before meeting some of your friends. I know that was your way of letting me know you were there with me in Vail. Sara told me she saw a double rainbow the day she heard you had passed away 3 weeks before and also knew you were with her.

 

I will miss you and love you always.

You will be in my thoughts daily until we met up again.

your little Sister,

Cindy

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Escondido, Ca 92046

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