Legacy

Yesterday, Kent and I were able to take a walk and part of our conversation came around to the word legacy. The reason for that is we are mourning with our friends the loss of their daughter, Carol. She met Jesus face to face on August 31 after a week-long hospital stay after an ATV accident. Carol touched our family in a variety of ways,  she was friend, babysitter, photographer, vacation-nanny, and supper-maker (she worked at our local Mancino's and had mastered all of their creations.)

So at 26 years old, Carol has left a legacy.

We have shared stories together as a family, Carol stories. They make us laugh. Carol was truly a one-of-a-kind.

Just tonight, one of my kids was commenting that with Carol, they always knew she cared about them. I would like that to be a part of my legacy.

 Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God!
How unsearchable his judgments,
and his paths beyond tracing out!

Romans 11:33

I am struck once again how I cannot understand God's ways or figure out his paths. His word tells me to stop trying, because they are beyond tracing out. But His word also tells me that He loves, He cares, He created and most importantly for me, He knows, and He knew.



For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
 My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place.
When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,
     your eyes saw my unformed body.
All the days ordained for me
were written in your book
before one of them came to be.

Psalm 139:13-16

I realize that when God created us, death wasn't part of the creation.

 Sin brought that.

Death feels wrong to me.

It was meant to.

I was created for so much more

and so was Carol.

There is a song at the end of one of the narnia movies, it is a beautiful reminder of what we were created for ...

sonship, daughters and sons of the King!

"There's a place for us"


We can be the kings and queens of anything if we believe
It's written in the stars that shine above
A world where you and I belong where, faith and love will keep us strong
Exactly who we are is just enough
There's a place for us

When the water meets the sky
Where your heart is free and hope comes back to life
When these broken hands are whole again
We'll find what we've been waiting for, we were made for so much more
Ecclesiastes 3:11
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end


Today, Carol makes me long for heaven.

For home!

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
― C.S. Lewis