So this past week has been very eventful. But I would like to start with Thursday morning while I was at work. I picked up my phone to check the time and started telling my "menace" child to stop pestering everyone...looked back at my phone and I had opened facebook. (It's just a button...I do it all the time.) I noticed I had a message in my inbox so I opened it. It was a message from Mike Gurganus saying that Tommy McTee had died. I immediately called mom, she hadn't heard yet, so she said she would call me back. I was overwhelmed with sadness. My older sister was much closer to Mr. McTee than I was because growing up she and his daughter Bethany had been best friends. But anyone who knew Tommy couldn't help but love him. He was an incredible Christian man who truly lived life to its fullest for God. My prayers are with Jan, Bethany, and Eli in these hard times but I rejoice knowing that Tommy is home. I want to live my life in such a way that when I go, people KNOW I am going home to my Lord.
Sooooo this past weekend Pleasant Grove COC, where my sisters attend, went on a retreat to Gatlinburg. I cannot say how good our God is. Colton (my little brother who's not actually related to me) was baptized! And the entire youth group was restored!! How GREAT is our God?! My older sister, Lee, wrote this poem and I could not have said it better:
Tommy McTee: A Christian
A Christian died
and one was born.
A Christian died
and a youth group was restored.
A Christian died
and God said "Come home my child and want no more."
By Lee Sentell
Good is good.
My Valentines Day is yet to come.
So very sorry about your friend. Miss seeing you! We need to have a class together again!
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