This past week or so has been some of the hardest, saddest moments I have experienced. It is not what anyone of us would have planned. My sweet friend and roommate, Aimee Powell, was killed in a car wreck last Thursday on her way to work. All of us who knew her count ourselves blessed to have known someone who loved God so genuinely and who taught us all how to love more fully and deeply and selflessly. I wish I could capture with words more of who she was; she was radiant, joyful, sweet, compassionate. She was refreshing in so many ways.
In the midst of this sad, hard time, God has shown Himself faithful. Surrounding and comforting His people. Speaking to all of us with the hope of the Resurrection though Christ. This is not it. There is more. He has given us His Spirit as a deposit guaranteeing what is to come. As Pastor Malloy said at Aimee's funeral, we have a deposit, but she has it all! Oh, my heart wells up! The joy she must know now as she hears the words, "Welcome home! Well done, my good and faithful servant. Come and enter into your Master's joy!"
No, it is not easy, but He is good!
One of the books that Brenda sent me is called Crazy Love. The back says, "It's crazy, if you think about it. The God of the universe- the Creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and E-minor- love us with a radical, unconditional, self-sacrificing love."
His self-sacrificing love defeated death! He died, so that we would not have to. And even though death may take us from this earth, it is just a door by which become more fully alive, in the Presence of our Savior forever!We will miss you, Aimee! See you soon!
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I can't help but think of the last paragraph of The Last Battle when I think of Aimee.
"The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning. And as He spoke, He no longer looked to them like a lion; but the things that began to happen after that were so great and beautiful that I cannot write them. And for us this is the end of all the stories, and we can most truly say that they all lived happily ever after. But for them it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at least they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before."
What an amazing picture!
I read that to my students on Monday!
Aimee wrote this verse in a card to my friend Lillian....it also makes me think of that quote.
"And how blessed all those in whom you live, whose lives become roads you travel; They wind through lonesome valleys, come upon brooks, discover cool springs and pools brimming with rain! God-traveled, these roads curve up the mountain, and at the last turn - Zion! God in full view!" Psalm 84, 5-7 (The Message).
wait you read it to your students? In English? Isn't that....cheating?
thanks for sharing, trish. love.
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