I have involved Francine in a tailor-made, one of a kind discipleship/leadership process here, and she’s “eat up with it.” I couldn't be more proud of her. One of her favorite words is "rocks," and she has told me this process I offered her rocks.
I made a comment to her that has had me
thinking ever since.
“Francine, you know, you and I are in the
business of cloning ourselves. Oh, not literal human cloning, but something
close to it. For you see, we need to be passing on something of ourselves to
those younger than us; so that we go on living and effecting others through
them, long after we pass from this earth.”
There’s a concept in the movie,
“Step-mom”, that I like a lot. A small boy’s mother is dying from cancer, and
she is spending a few final moments with him at Christmas. One poignant
interaction between them went something like:
“You know, Tim, you can always take me
places in your heart. And you can talk to me in your dreams. I’ll be there. And
as long as you remember me, I can still live.”
And we may continue spreading our witness
through others in very much the same way.
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