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...
