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Explore resources to help you live out your life and relationships in a way that honors God. Sharing your faith is one of our most important callings as followers of Christ. Learn to develop your skills, desire and ability to join others on their spiritual journeys and take them closer to Jesus. December 7, , began as many other days do: with the hustle and bustle of a morning of travel. Our family divided to take three different routes to Anchorage, Alaska, for the high school state volleyball tournament.
The time was busy with questions about what to pack, last-minute errands to run, and plans for meeting up once we arrived. I smile thinking of the bustle, the division of labor, the sweet kiss before I ran out the door. So routine. My husband and two of our children were passengers in a single-engine Piper Cherokee that left our home of Port Alsworth, Alaska. I arrived in Anchorage and waited to hear from Scott. After many calls went straight to his voicemail, I called others to find out when he, year-old Kaitlyn and year-old Zach were estimated to arrive.
All anyone knew was that they had left Port Alsworth. The next 27 hours were excruciating as hope gradually faded. I dozed for moments at a time, leaving my phone near me in case there was news. We were constantly covered in prayer. As the night owls in Alaska went to sleep, the early birds on the East Coast woke up.
On December 8 around 4 p. Wreckage from the plane and personal effects had been recovered from Lake Clark. There were no survivors. In an instant we were a family of three. So few. Such loss. Their journey complete, ours just getting harder. Some were there day after day; some had to find ways to support us from afar. God used the people in our life to love and care for us. How He did that is hard to define. There's no formula I can give you, and I have cringed at lists that purport to do that.
