For Such A Time As This..

It is Sunday evening. My mind is racing with thoughts. 

I have had to ask Jesus for peace and strength a lot this last week, more than normal. 

Not just for me but for my baby girl and our small Boyd Community.

If I am being completely honest, I find myself feeling guilty for being thankful that I have all my beautiful babies with me. That I have my husband. My Momma and Daddy..

I have been reminded that it can at any moment change.

This last weekend my baby attended two weddings and two funerals. 

How bittersweet...

This last week she has had to be so strong and hold the hand of a sweet young teenage girl from her youth group, as this young lady had to say goodbye to her big brother, someone just a little older than Jasmine’s brothers.

Jazzy and her classmates also mourn the loss of a fellow Senior girl. 

She was there to hug this young lady’s sweet momma.

Jasmine came home and talked to us and just kept saying, “It is not fair, she was so close to graduating” Trav and I were speechless. Because we agree it is not fair, and there just is no explanation. We may have even hugged our Senior just a little tighter that night. I told Jasmine that times like this is why she may have been called to be part of this youth group. To be strong and to show compassion for times like this.

This last couple of years Jazz has attended too many funerals, and some gave her some anxiety. 

A classmate who lost her precious baby, a one month old..

Than two of her close friends who went away to college only to have to come back to bury their father one year apart.

Jazz started to freak out and considered maybe not going away to college, in fear that she would lose one of her parents.

We quickly calmed those fears, and told her we would be just fine and she has to trust that her going away to college is what we would want no matter what.

Because we can’t stop living life because of the many “what ifs” and “fears”..

But, what motivation I hope it gives our small community to live each day to the fullest. 

To love with everything we have. To be more patient while driving. To go out of our way to be kind.

And may it encourage not only my baby but all our children. To make each day count.

 That when we are called to heaven one day, that we leave behind a "Hammett Legacy" that made a difference in the lives we leave behind.

So if you are reading my blog I ask that when you pray today, that you lift my Jazzy up in your prayers and her fellow classmates. These Seniors hold a special place in my heart, and they are limping along this wk.

Pray for peace, and for healing in their tender hearts. For their protection.. And for the parents and families of the ones who are grieving. May they feel the love of Jesus wrapping them up in his arms.

Thank you...