In LIfe and In Death

   A few nights ago we had been watching the evening news. At one point we decided that we had had enough of the political scene that was capturing the whole TV news, and we reached for the remote to look for something more.

   As the channel search rolled along, I noticed a couple on one channel singing a song. It was an old hymn, and we stopped to watch and listen. One song led to another, and we watched as the life story of Joey and Rory Feek played out on the screen in the midst of a Bill Gaither program.

   Joey Feek died the first part of this month from cancer.

   Rory has been writing a blog for the better part of the last couple of years that documents their struggle, both the highs and lows, a young couple dealing with the effects and trials of this terrible disease. You can read it here:

http://thislifeilive.com

   Joey did not want to die. She had a two year old daughter that she wanted to help raise. She had a music career that was a blessing to many, and she had a man that she loved deeply that she wanted to grow old with.

   But it was not to play out that way. God had a different plan, and she accepted that, in the midst of her own desires and those of her husband.

   All of us come to the end of our lives one day, but it is how we do it that is on my mind this morning.

   I remember a tombstone on a Caribbean island.

   The inscription on it said, "She showed others how a Christian woman ought to die"

   Do I look at death as an opportunity to be a blessing and an example to others?

   Looking at how this couple, Joey and Rory Feek, reflect God's will and His glory, I want more and more to be that kind of example.

   Both Joey's in how she handled her own mortality, and Rory's as he cared for her.

   God should be exalted by both.