theJourney

It seems like I write a lot about death on this blog. Maybe its some weird thing trying to immortalizing them, or maybe is my funky way to process out feelings. A missionary friend wrote me today from Taiwan. Her grandpa passed away and she is half way around the world. I wrote her back, half encouraging her and half processing out my own thoughts. Here is part of what I wrote"
When Tim, my mentor died, I and many others had lots of mixed feelings. God called him back to be with Him. And yet, we don’t want them out of our lives quite yet and mourn their not being with us any more. I felt kind of selfish, kind of like, “God, you can’t have him yet!” so, all that to say, its an awesome thing that someone could love us so much, pour into our lives and mean something to us that we feel pain in our inner depths of our bodies when they pass on. That concept still is mind boggling.

I’ll leave you with this quote. From Erwin McManus, Pastor of Mosaic church in L.A.

-- "What you accomplish in life is not nearly as important as who you become. It doesn't matter how many people you know, it matters if you are a person worth knowing. "
-E McManus