Can you believe it? Two blogs in a month! Wahoo! As Ben and I were walking home from church I mentioned to him that I had to blog about what happened at church. Let me start by stating that there has been a lot of death in our community in the last month. There have been elders that have passed, a 5 month baby, and a young 23 year old who took his own life. There have been a lot of families in mourning lately. However, I need to talk about one of the Elders who passed away last week. Her name is Evelyn Walters and she followed the Lord. I didn't know her well, just saying hello and hugging her whenever I saw her. I do know a lot of her family members, and boy does she have a lot of family. I can't even start to explain the length of her family, but I got sort of an idea at church today. She has family from all over and all of that family came to Mountain Village to say goodbye and have stayed celebrating Evelyn's life and legacy. I told Ben that we better get to church a little early because the family is huge. We walked in and right away I just kind of got tears in my eyes because of all the people. I looked over at one of my very good friends, Hazel and I just had to smile because of all the family that was in the church. I immediately felt like I was apart of their big family and in all honesty, we are a family in the body of Christ. At one point in church, almost all of Evelyn's daughters got up to sing a song. There were 9 daughters standing in the front singing, and that wasn't even all of them because some of them had to leave the day before. This woman has left a legacy of children who follow the Lord. This ONE woman and probably her husband as well, but I never knew him taught their kids about Jesus and the bible. It really got me thinking to what kind of legacy I want for Ben and I's kids, grand kids, great grand kids, etc. I'm thankful that my parents brought me up in the church as did Ben's. Ben and I pray daily about the kids we don't even have yet that they would become believers and walk with the Lord. Anyway, just thought I would share a tidbit on how I was encouraged today. Below is a picture of Evelyn Walters.
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