| | This is an email I sent my family:
Today Blue Ridge Community Church hasn't exactly seen the best days.
When it sort of started off, at least since I had been there at 7:40,
things were great. The only things we had to worry about were getting
the pepperoni rolls out in time. But come eleven ten, people with
horrified faces started to file through the doors, some coming up to
the bakery to tell us what they saw. On 460, the main highway to get to
church, there was a terrible accident. An older couple on a motorcycle
going away from the church toward Lynchburg somehow jumped the median
into oncoming traffic, colliding head-on with a car containing a family
of about 4. The motorcycle blew up, causing the man on the motorcycle
to die on impact; the woman on the motorcycle had to be air-lifted to a
hospital because of her age and condition. I'm not sure how those in
the car are...as of this morning they were all still alive.
Knowing
that there are many at our church who drive motorcycles, people were
obviously asking around to see who had made it to church and who had
made it home after the first service. Turns out both parties who
collided went to our church, I'm pretty sure...at least the family in
the van did.
And also hearing this my heart breaks. Part of me
breaks because all of the jolts and lurches that take place in any kind
of collision are still with me...and part of me because of the death.
It's been a good day but also a sobering one.
Please pray for these families and for the church and for any other friends or community affected by this wreck.
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I don't know why it hit me so hard. I don't even know these people, but I can only imagine the kind of loss everyone who knew them is going through. It struck the kind of chord that gets struck when God teaches me more about compassion, about His heart, and about what He wants me to specifically do with my life and gifts and calling.
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