On July 5th, we lost our cousin Kelsey Kennedy, to cancer.
We will miss her and I can't even begin to imagine what her husband Chris, her parents and her daughter Alexa are going through as the finality and seperation of death sets in. The most beautiful hope and peace right now, for us, is found in rejoicing at the vision and knowledge of her uniting with and worshipping Christ, holding her unborn babies and having a whole, healed body in heaven, this day. Kelsey grieved her miscarriages greatly and I hope that she is enjoying kissing those babies and basking in His love and radiance.
I know the joyfull truths, I experience peace through knowing them and through the Holy Spirit, but I am also grieving for for the Kennedy and Scoggins families, and for other families who have "prematurely" lost dear ones. I have to say, I hate cancer and I hate the death, sin and corruption that is on this earth. There are so many terrible, painful things that happen here on earth, most of them are things I don't even have to experience living in the U.S, coming from a loving home...etc...
Knowing that I am in a place of ability makes me want to use my time and our resources to love and help others in every way possible. Losing loved ones makes me want to appreciate every beautiful moment I have here, while at the same time always growing in my conviction and excitement that this life and this world are not what I live for.
We will miss her and I can't even begin to imagine what her husband Chris, her parents and her daughter Alexa are going through as the finality and seperation of death sets in. The most beautiful hope and peace right now, for us, is found in rejoicing at the vision and knowledge of her uniting with and worshipping Christ, holding her unborn babies and having a whole, healed body in heaven, this day. Kelsey grieved her miscarriages greatly and I hope that she is enjoying kissing those babies and basking in His love and radiance.
I know the joyfull truths, I experience peace through knowing them and through the Holy Spirit, but I am also grieving for for the Kennedy and Scoggins families, and for other families who have "prematurely" lost dear ones. I have to say, I hate cancer and I hate the death, sin and corruption that is on this earth. There are so many terrible, painful things that happen here on earth, most of them are things I don't even have to experience living in the U.S, coming from a loving home...etc...
Knowing that I am in a place of ability makes me want to use my time and our resources to love and help others in every way possible. Losing loved ones makes me want to appreciate every beautiful moment I have here, while at the same time always growing in my conviction and excitement that this life and this world are not what I live for.
Please join us in praying for the Kennedy and Scoggins families as they move forward. We will miss Kelsey dearly.
http://thekennedycrew.blogspot.com/
Love,
The Hayes Family
II Corinthians 4:13-18: “It is written: ‘I believed; therefore I have spoken.’ Since we have that same spirit of faith, we also believe and therefore speak, because we know that the One who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you to Himself. All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God. Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen in eternal.”
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