From: Debra Thompson [mailto:debra@wealthalliancegroup.com]
Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 9:45 PM
To: Wealth Alliance Members
Subject: A tribute and prayers and Love For Sue Riek
Importance: High
To Our Wealth Alliance Members,
You just saw a message that Marilyn shared with us regarding the passing of our fellow member Sue Riek, who died this past week from heart failure. While I am still in tremendous shock and pain right now I feel that I just want to reach out to all of you tonight in this time of sadness to bring us all together and to tell you what an incredible friend and light Sue was to me, to you and to everyone around her.
I met Sue in February of this year at Steve and Kerry Beck’s Family Ebiz Expo in San Antonio. I was speaking for the first time in a long time and was a little nervous. I was the first speaker up on the platform that weekend and as I was standing up on stage I took a deep breath, said a little prayer asking for comfort and I looked up and saw Sue. She lit up the room and her smile was so wide and bright. She smiled the entire time I spoke! I couldn’t take my eyes away from her. She gave me such comfort and peace… I felt like I had a friend in the audience and that I was speaking just to her.
Sue came up to me after my presentation to introduce herself and that was when we met for the first time. She ended up purchasing my product and joined the Wealth Alliance family. We became fast friends and I shared with her how her smile was what carried me through my presentation. Her smile gave me the confidence to go on… and because of her smile I have gone on and on, sharing with others now around the world. I know I will truly miss her smile.
What you may not know and what Sue shared with me in confidence during our coaching, was that Sue lived constantly in pain. She confessed that she was not at the time that she could make the trip to San Antonio to attend the event. But God presented a way for her and she mustered her strength to attend. She had such severe pain in her back, and that day at the Beck’s Ebiz Expo, she was in tremendous pain sitting there listening to me, but she never showed it… at all… to anyone. You’d never know it to talk to her or to see her. She kept her smile on for all to see and shared her light with everyone she could, touching hearts wherever she was. She was truly God’s angel on earth and a blessing for all of us.
Here is a picture of Sue with some of us from Wealth Alliance at the SMART Seminar in
Atlanta in July, you can see her smile radiate throughout the photo (Sue is the SMILE on the end oh yeah and she’s in the blue/whie striped shirt).
I am blessed to have had the opportunity for Sue to recently join Randy, Robin and I, just less than 2 weeks ago, in Las Vegas for the FreedomFactor event. She contacted me and we talked for a long while about her making the trip. She was so excited to come and it was so good to see her. I have to tell you that I just couldn’t wait to see her smile again and was looking forward to catching up with her.
A funny thing happened there at FreedomFactor that you would just not believe. Sue was exploring Las Vegas and taking time to enjoy herself and have some fun. She so deserved and had not done anything like this before. She had even planned to stay over and take a helicopter over the
Grand Canyon! She was really excited about that.
One evening she took time out to go see a show on the strip. She accidentally left her wallet in the cab. Later that night she received a voice mail on her cell phone from her bank indicating that she had lost her wallet, someone found it and called them, and they were canceling her cards. Sue asked who had found it and they said a gentleman by the name of Dave Lakhani. If you do not know who Dave is, he was also a speaker at the Beck’s event in San Antonio where Sue had met Dave and asked him to lunch. Dave had gotten into the cab that night apparently not long after Sue and found her wallet. He didn’t know it was her at first… he intuitively felt as if he knew her and yet couldn’t place her… especially in the middle of Las Vegas of all places.
On Sunday at the end of our FreedomFactor event… Sue rushed up to me with her huge smile and told me she was off to meet with Dave Lakhani and get her wallet back. She wanted to sign up for FreedomFactor but could not because she didn’t have any money (since Dave had her wallet) and just laughed all the way through telling me that. She gave me a hug and told me she would call me later. And that was the last time I saw her smile…
I heard from her again last week after her adventure… this is what she wrote in her final email:
From: sue riek [mailto:
shopshock@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 7:32 PM
To:
Debra Thompson
Subject: my first blog post
hey deb,wow, was it great to see you last weekend. i got home late wednesday night and slept for most of the next 36 hours. i had a great time monday and tuesday in vegas. took an unforgettable helicopter ride in and over the canyon and over the strip after dard. wow, was that fun.i just put up my wordpress at sueriek.com. there i tell my missing wallet story. could you ask randy to give me a buzz or an email so we can chat a bit about the blogs so i can get some more up.the training last weekend was more than i could have ever imagined. lots and lots of info. i would like to set up a time with you to discuss freedom factor and moving forward. yeah!have a fabulous weekend and thanks for being there.love,
sue
Sue we love you… your spirit, your smile and your light will shine on forever in our hearts. Thank you for being the blessing you were to all of us. You will be missed so much my dear dear friend. Keep smiling in heaven… we know you are with us.
Love always,Deb
