Fly a Little Higher!
Fly a Little Higher!
The first day of his senior year was complete. Laura Sobiech waited with bated breath for her musician son, Zach, to return home so she could hear how the day had gone.
(Photo from Zach’s Facebook pages)
Fly a Little Higher!
Fly a Little Higher!
At the age of 17, after fighting cancer for more than two years, Zach Sobiech had just found out he was terminal.
(Photo from Zach’s Facebook pages)
Fly a Little Higher!
Fly a Little Higher!
She watched as he got out of the car and even from a distance she could see the heaviness in his gait and on his face. Allowing him the space a 17-year-old boy requires from his mom, she waited. Finally, she turned and asked, “How did it go?”
(Photo from Zach’s Facebook pages)
Fly a Little Higher!
Fly a Little Higher!
With huge tears spilling from his eyes, he said, “I don’t know how to do this.” And then he sobbed. “Though my heart was breaking,” remembers Laura Sobiech, “my mother’s mind was bent on fixing his pain. Of course I knew what he meant. How do you pretend that life is normal when there is nothing normal about cancer slowly eating away at your bones and lungs – certainly nothing normal about learning, at seventeen, that you’re terminal.”
(Photo from Zach’s Facebook pages)
Fly a Little Higher!
Fly a Little Higher!
He “was watching his friends step into this new arena of planning and out of the comfortable, year-after-year high school routine.” He realized he’d never go to college. They were leaving him behind and it was lonely.
(Photo from Zach’s Facebook pages)
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Fly a Little Higher!
When his mother told him to think about writing good-bye letters to family and friends, he decided instead to write songs.
(Photo from Zach’s Facebook pages)
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One of them, “Clouds,” captured hearts and changed not one life but millions, making him an international sensation. It went viral on YouTube.
Fly a little higher!
Fly a little higher!
God used a dying boy from a small town in Minnesota to touch the hearts of millions.
Then came the day, Laura writes, when she had to pray, “Okay, Lord, you can have him. But if he must die, I want it to be for something big. I want someone’s life to be changed forever.”
(Photo from Zach’s Facebook pages)
Fly a little higher!
Fly a little higher!
Zach once said, “I want to be known as the kid who went down fighting, and didn’t really lose.”
(Photo from Zach’s Facebook pages)
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Musicians and actors Matchbox Twenty, Brian Cranston, Rachel Bilson, Jason Mraz, Ed Helms, Sarah Silverman, and the Lumineers (just to name a few) all were so personally affected by Zach’s story that they demonstrated their support through performing “Clouds” in a touching tribute to the dying teenager.
Fly a Little Higher!
Laura writes in Fly A Little Higher: big .
