Her cousin in California made a Facebook post about her passing and I think she summed up my wifes essence beautifully....
My most Beautiful Cousin Debi, went home to be with Jesus yesterday. Going to miss you so much. Thank you for being such a Loving , caring, creative, funny,mighty ,woman of God. Going to miss your phone calls, exchanging recipes and family memories, my girl's will miss their Aunty Debi reaching out to them all the way from Texas. Praying for your Loving husband David and your family
To be remembered as particularly a loving, caring, mighty woman of God is how she should be remembered, it is how she lived her life, maybe not perfectly, but she was the most loving person I have ever met, and she was on fire for the Lord from before we met.
She would often wear faith based T shirts, most recently ones from The Chosen, and would use them to spark up conversations about Jesus at any opportunity she had. Even if we were just standing in line to pay at the gas station. It didn't matter she was going to talk to people about Jesus. Like there was an urgency about it... She wasn't pushy, but she always approached it with a come and see attitude. Just see for yourself.
I am being surrounded by friends, family, and our church family. Which right now is a blessing beyond words. I cannot think straight enough to even prepare my own lunch right now. Not that I am able to eat much anyway but that is a different issue.
The pain and tears are coming in waves, and in between the warmest, fondest memories of our time together, even the hard times when we were presented challenges, tests as it were, we would come together and work our way through it with the help of the Lord every single time, and with joy. And in those warm moments I can almost feel her soft hands on my shoulders. I hope the pain and tears go away, but the warm memories of her stand solid and secure for the rest of my days however many that God has for me.
