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The Familyman
Todd Wilson, Familyman Ministries
It’s amazing how quickly things change. Just yesterday, I was thinking about the topic at hand. I was going to encourage you to let your kids have a non-parent controlled lemonade stand. Then I got a phone call.
I was just about to board a bus at the Chicago Midway Airport that would take me to the red lot to get my car when my wife called to tell me that Debbie Strayer (who used to write for The Homeschool Minute™) died suddenly.
“Oh, man,” was all I could get out. It felt like a frying pan in the face. I had just talked to her a couple of weeks ago in Florida. As always, she was so alive and vibrant. In fact, she made me feel tired just listening to her. And now she’s . . . gone.
Some friends of ours texted my wife and said they had spent the weekend with Debbie, talking about her future plans with her recently retired husband. Future plans . . . if only she had known. But nobody ever knows.
It’s sobering actually. Not that I feel sorry for her. She is experiencing everything that she and we have hoped for since placing our trust in the ONE who conquered death, but I still feel sober. I guess it’s just another painful reminder that you never know. You never know that when you say to your children, “Not today. Maybe tomorrow . . . ” you don’t get a tomorrow.
I leave you with that truth. If you’re planning to do something with your family, then do it today, because you (or they) may be in heaven tomorrow.
Pray for Debbie’s family and go love your children and spouse,
Todd
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