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"Let light shine out of darkness, made His light shine in our hearts to us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ." 2 Corinthians 4:6

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Jimmy O

Well we knew this day was coming for quite some time. My Uncle Jimmy, otherwise known as JO, J Owens, Jimmy or by his nieces (us Dyer girls) just plain 'ol uncle jimmy, died this morning African time. He had fought a long (13 years long) battle with cancer. Days like these when life changes at home and you feel like you can't change with it. It's like deaths, marriages, divorces, and births all happen and somehow we are suppose to adjust. Adjusting is hard whether your in the midst of the situation right by the person who's life has just changed or you are the person life is changing. Does this make sense ?
You see when we signed up for this missionary gig I wasn't prepared for all the life changing events that would happen, people adjust and we are expected to adjust too. Which is crazy to think that people you move away from stay stagnant, after all their lives don't evolve around us and should not.
The only think I can think to relate it to is like going off to college. You have a home home but you have a college home. Things still happen at home home but hopefully not in such huge ways that you can't adjust to when home on the weekend. It's like living is two separate but combined worlds. Am I making any sense here?
It's been almost 5 years of this gig and many things change. People change, babies become toddlers or even school kids! After realizing that adjusting our lives to where God wanted is physically, we have to adjust our minds and attitudes towards events such as death, marriage, divorce and birth.
You realize this is not our home. We are here for a short while. Hoping and praying we are doing all we can to point others toward the love of Christ. So, in my suffering Christ will be glorified. He is Alpha and omega.
Colossians 1:17 says He is before ALL things and in HIM all things hold together.
My life verse shown to me by a dear lady that has gone to heaven Blessed to know I'll see her and Uncle Jimmy again one day.
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