KRISTY REALLY CARED ABOUT ME.....

Milton, here for Kristy:

Tuesday night we had our annual Thanksgiving Dinner for our senior's ministry. I share a Thanksgiving Message each year and did again. I love to spend time with our seniors for they are so loving, positive, and faith-filled. They love their pastor and it makes me feel special--especially right now.

I spoke from Philippians 1 and focused on verse 3 where Paul said that he "gave thanks for you." I dwelt with various aspects of thanksgiving and why, how, and what we should be thankful for. Paul was thankful for people. He gave thanks for "you"--he gave thanks for people close and dear. We should be thankful for God, food, health, jobs, and life in general, but we should also be thankful for people. I told them to turn to the person next to them and say, "I am thankful for you."

At the end of the gathering everyone had left but a few who were finishing cleaning. One of the men came up to me and took real interest in how I was doing. Actually they all did, but he stood an extra amount of time asking about loneliness and other issues in my life. His first wife died and he really knows what I am facing.

After an extended period of talk, he said to me, "Kristy came up to me at church after she came down with her tumor and said to please talk with Milton and help him through his loneliness and hurt. He will need your help."

He said that he told her that he was believing for her healing and she said "thanks." But the point is that she loved me with a love that thought ahead to my needs and did all that she could to help me.

That is incredible love. That is love that lays down your life for another. That is a God love. That is the kind of love we shared.

That is why this is such a huge loss. I will make it through this because she told Jesus to send me some help. I asked her to do this just moments before she passed into heaven. Help came to me last night and it is coming in many and various ways. 

Kristy told Jesus and He is sending me help.

Kristy was one really special, classy lady. She really loved me. I loved her too.