I've been associates with Julie Sharper for years. I additionally had the honour of assembly her father and listening to tales from his life. He went to heaven on January 1, 2025. Jolie despatched a message celebrating his life. This was an encouragement to me, so I needed to share it with you.
“It's higher to spend your time at funerals than at events. In spite of everything, everybody dies, so the residing should take this critically“.
Ecclesiastes 7:2
I hope this story makes you concentrate on what you need to focus your life on and what you prefer to individuals to say about you once you go to heaven. When you concentrate on “a life effectively lived,” what does that seem like to you?
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Julie's ideas on her father
Once we consider New 12 months's Day, we often consider a brand new starting, new celebrations and resolutions.
This 12 months, for me, was a day of endings, the tip of a protracted life. My father died at present.
I'm penning this from my airplane. This loss of life was not sudden or sudden. My father was 97 years outdated and in hospice care. It’s the finish of his life right here on earth and I’ll miss him. He had an excellent life.
My father was a particular man. God actually broke the mildew on him –
His love and attraction had been so apparent. He was a cheerleader in highschool, class of 1943 (graduated two years early). He gave his life to Christ on the age of 42 in an altar name in the identical church the place his funeral can be held. He was by no means wealthy but He by no means anxious about cash. He’s well-known for his particular quotes:
“I He chooses “to be cheerful”
“I'm allowed to do this He prays About this however I'm not allowed to He worries“
“Waste not, need not” was an oft-heard adage, in spite of everything, he was born two years earlier than the Nice Despair. He was frugal with himself however beneficiant towards others. He won’t ever let meals (or anything for that matter) go to waste. He was the one individual residing in Florida who thought air-con was by some means non-compulsory. He was asking us to “assume huge”… and I'm unsure he succeeded in convincing any of us of his mind-set.
I can't bear in mind my father ever utilizing a nasty phrase and even complaining. When he received shingles one 12 months, he complained – I knew it was unhealthy.
He was such a giver!
As his youngest baby, I knew my father solely as a loyal follower of Christ. Rising up as a toddler within the Seventies, there was a seemingly big rise within the variety of hitchhikers alongside Florida's highways. I can simply bear in mind how when he noticed a traveler on the facet of the street, he would start to hope, and so I do. He was asking God if he ought to take him, whereas I used to be praying (from the backseat) that we’d maintain going. My prayers weren’t noble, form, or loving, and I don't bear in mind issues ever going my manner. Quickly I felt the automobile decelerate and my father would drive over the bumpy street to show the automobile round and return searching for the individual in want. He by no means appeared to care whether or not the traveler was soiled or unkempt. It by no means appeared to matter what we had our Agenda or our desk. My dad would play gospel music and begin speaking to his new passenger about God. We might nearly all the time cease at a restaurant and he would purchase them a meal. Once I was younger, I failed to comprehend that my father was residing the story of the Good Samaritan. Within the Bible story, there have been those that had been too busy and too vital to assist, and only one man who went out of his manner to assist somebody in want. Invoice McDormmont has lived his complete life to bless others. He was the Good Samaritan incarnate.
Speaking about God was pure for my father. He really confirmed the love of Jesus.
For the previous 4 years, my father has lived in an assisted residing facility. He seen it as an project from God. He shared his religion along with his first good friend, “The Colonel,” and the person gave his life to Christ after which died two weeks later. My father helped change that man's everlasting vacation spot.
He needed to share his love of Jesus with caregivers, employees and residents. My sisters would write his tales and he would go them on. He in all probability had about 30 completely different tales, however there was a theme to every one: Jesus was the hero, Jesus was the miracle employee and Jesus loves us, everybody From us, it doesn’t matter what you've completed or who you might be.
I need to encourage you that you can also dwell an excellent life. You can also carry the love of Christ wherever you go. (Sure, even in an assisted residing facility.) You too can select to be cheerful. You possibly can select to provide every thing to God and refuse to fret. You possibly can select to be uninterruptible for the Kingdom of God. My father knew his objective was to glorify God and he did that till his ultimate waking hours. And I can't assist however assume that God will greet him with phrases much like His phrases in Matthew 3 to Jesus: “That is my Son in whom I’m effectively happy.” He’s in his dwelling, his heavenly dwelling, finally.
“Valuable within the eyes of the Lord is the loss of life of his saints” (Proverbs 19:21).
I’m so grateful for this man's lovely legacy. I’m grateful for his peaceable passing and that he’s in heaven singing and dancing with the angels and I can see him once more. peace.
Relaxation in peace, Billy Lyman McDormmont
August 31, 1927 – January 1, 2025
peace.
Julie
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