03/03/2026
, we turned from strangers into friends the instant we met 10 years ago. We’d go from laughing about SpongeBob’s grandma one minute to talking about the complexities of life in the next. Our friendship was a safe space that held an unspoken knowing that we could simply be real with one another. What a rare thing that was and what a privilege it has been to share it with you.
You made me laugh without trying. You made me think deeply and see creatively. You were a force in the gentlest, brightest way. A deep feeler with your heart on your sleeve. Loyal to the core. Everyone’s biggest fan.
To know you was to be changed by the way you loved God and His people. Your life powerfully reminded us how much we need Him in everything. You held tightly to Jesus through every single thing and you never let Him go.
There are so many memories with you that’ll be playing on repeat until the day we meet again in Heaven. When the sun breaks through the clouds. When one of our favorite artists comes on. When I reach for Hot Cheetos or sour candy. When I pass the places that hold our times together. I’ll remember you in it all.
It has been such a great gift to be your friend, Caleb. My heart aches knowing we won’t longboard on sunny afternoons, sing our lungs out at another NF concert, share sushi burritos and boba, sit for hours talking about whatever came to mind, or make music in your garage while you wrote the kind of lyrics the world needed to hear. And yet, even in the ache, I have peace knowing you are whole, healed, and standing in the presence of the One you love most.
Your friend forever,
Anne of Green Gables
