Spring football is just around the corner. I'm excited to hear the latest news about young guys making their marks.
This may not initially sound like good news but it really is.
My mother-in-law passed away on Saturday night. She was 92 and lived a great life. She was married for 70 years to the same man and raised four great-kids. She graduated from South Carolina with a degree in Education. My father-in-law also graduated from SC, where he played both football and baseball. She taught Kindergarten for 30 years and then traveled the world. They have a beautiful home on a lake where we spent years laughing and building memories. She was a Christian woman who knew exactly where she was headed.
She was the biggest sports fan in the family, and I have photographic proof of her watching college football on her iPhone at her granddaughters' wedding. I know she was thinking the same thing I was: Who in their right mind gets married on a Saturday during football season?
Four lessons I learned from her.
Dessert is for more than just special occasions. Celebrate every meal.
If there is no ice cream, it's not a proper dessert.
If you aren't laughing, you aren't living.
Jesus is the answer.
Last year was challenging as she began to fail physically and mentally. Near the end, she was ready to go and confessed she had no desire to "hang on." We all got to say our goodbyes through tears and heartbreak, but our memories will be of all the good times. We will all face the end someday. I just hope I have the class and courage to go out like her.
She lived a wonderful life; anyone who knew her could see Christian love in everything she did. I'm happy for her; I know she is fully restored, and all the worries of this life are gone. That is very good news.
What's your good news?
Go Blue!
This may not initially sound like good news but it really is.
My mother-in-law passed away on Saturday night. She was 92 and lived a great life. She was married for 70 years to the same man and raised four great-kids. She graduated from South Carolina with a degree in Education. My father-in-law also graduated from SC, where he played both football and baseball. She taught Kindergarten for 30 years and then traveled the world. They have a beautiful home on a lake where we spent years laughing and building memories. She was a Christian woman who knew exactly where she was headed.
She was the biggest sports fan in the family, and I have photographic proof of her watching college football on her iPhone at her granddaughters' wedding. I know she was thinking the same thing I was: Who in their right mind gets married on a Saturday during football season?
Four lessons I learned from her.
Dessert is for more than just special occasions. Celebrate every meal.
If there is no ice cream, it's not a proper dessert.
If you aren't laughing, you aren't living.
Jesus is the answer.
Last year was challenging as she began to fail physically and mentally. Near the end, she was ready to go and confessed she had no desire to "hang on." We all got to say our goodbyes through tears and heartbreak, but our memories will be of all the good times. We will all face the end someday. I just hope I have the class and courage to go out like her.
She lived a wonderful life; anyone who knew her could see Christian love in everything she did. I'm happy for her; I know she is fully restored, and all the worries of this life are gone. That is very good news.
What's your good news?
Go Blue!
