I know we have heard this saying, "Out of Sight, Out of Mind". This saying means that a person stops thinking about something or someone if he or she does not see that thing or person for a period of time. It is sad but so true. We all get so busy in our daily routines. Just like my blog it is out of sight and I forget I even have it. I was changing something on our web page for our ministry and I saw the button for my blog. Then I realized how long I have neglected it. So with the Lord's help, I am going to at least try to update it when we do our newsletter.
So many things come and go in our lives. We meet so many different people especially as we travel. It is hard to remember names, faces and where they are from. As missionaries we carry prayer cards and hand them out because we want people to remember us and to pray for us.
Have you ever had someone ask you to pray for them and you say you will but if you don't write it down or pray right then, "what happens?" We forget, Out of sight, out of mind. It is sad but we all have been there.
So much has happened since my last post in March. The beginning of this year was rough. We were traveling back and forth from Texas to Quincy, IL. We wanted to be with Kelly and her family as much as possible. I thank the Lord for all the time He allowed us to spend with her in her last days and also with Bro. Jason and the kids. We love them all so much. Bro. Jason and Kelly were like "our kids" that we never had. They were our first church that we helped when we started Ambassador Baptist Ministries. We seemed to bond from the very beginning. The kids call us "Pawpaw and Grandma Debbie" makes our hearts melt.
As time went on the pain was less but I think about her almost every day. When Mother's Day came around it was very hard. I found myself crying on and off most of the day thinking about her. Be assured I think and pray for Kelly's parents and have seen them and sent notes. I am just an "adopted mom". I must say it is neat that they adopted us.
Things I do to remember her, I go back to our text messages and read them. We talked just about everyday, depending on how she was feeling. I will go back and look at lots of pictures of us together and watching videos we took at the end up at the hospital. Especially her birthday celebration in ICU. We have LOTS of special memories. We also see the family often. Recently we were at a meeting and there was a pastor's wife who looked so much like Kelly. I felt like I was stalking her, always looking her way and I just wanted to go give her a hug. Brought tears to my eyes, but oh, how sweet when the Lord does things in our lives to help us "remember" those things or people that are "Out of sight, out of mind".
Just a reminder that we need to find ways to keep those things or people before us.
"Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip." Hebrews 2:1
Let's not let the things which we have read and been taught from the Bible slip away or those special memories.
