A photo portrait of Emily!
Stairs to Heaven
Today we wanted to remember Emily on this 2nd anniversary of her home-going to heaven. She’s dearly loved and greatly missed by all her family and loved ones.
There’s a chapter from Emily’s book, Living Memento Mori, that she wrote in about a friend who carried her to the top of the Empire State Building on New Years Eve 2003 (before she had received her double lung transplant for her cystic fibrosis).
From a page in Emily’s book, Living Memento Mori. Page 1 of 2.
From a page in Emily’s book, Living Memento Mori. Page 2 of 2.
Such a beautiful story when considering what it meant to her at that time and in considering the biblical application of Jesus being the one who carried her (as He does all of us) in our moments of weakness. Exactly 20 years later, she was carried again, but this time, to heaven where she is now free of all that held her back physically in this world.
Memories from Friends
Earlier this month, we posted a short blog asking for memories of Emily. Here are 6 moments sent in as tributes to the beautiful soul that Emily embodied during here time here. We hope you read and are blessed by these stories as you enter into the New Year.
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”- John 11:25-26
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