I never met her...or them. I never attended their concerts or owned their CD. Yet the past few months had me watching, praying, loving and hoping...for Joey and Rory Feek, a country/gospel music duo. Joey has battled cancer and as her husband wrote about their journey, I couldn't help but notice, admire and respect their amazing faith as they faced terminal illness with eternal hope. Today, March 4, around 2:30 pm, Joey took her last breath on earth and her first breath in Heaven.
Something that Joey's husband wrote, as he announced on his blog that she had gone Home, moved my heart deeply. Rory said, "In the time that God gave her...I believe Joey's given all she could give. She's loved all she could love and lived all she could live." What an incredible and beautiful testimony for this precious forty-year-old wife, mom, daughter, sister and musician who left this world much better than she found it.
I have witnessed life on many levels. I have carried and given birth to our children. I have lost precious family and dear friends too many times. I have witnessed life leaving this world. My own mother is gradually fading from the life she has known here toward a time that will eventually take her Home, too. I have also been between life and death as prayers were prayed and medical personnel literally raced me down a hospital hallway. Life is so precious. Life is so frail. It arrives and leaves much too quickly.
Those who know me best know that I often share this simple statement. "Love living. Live loving." Those are my most simple, sincere and strong words I can say from my own journey. I take life...and love...seriously. Each day reminds me that this is the time to "give all I can give, love all I can love and live all I can live."
May we celebrate each moment He has given us. May we share the love He has shown us. May we give as He has so beautifully given to us. Today. Tonight. Tomorrow. Each breath. May we truly and thoroughly "Love living...and Live Loving."<3~thl
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