You may have missed the terrible story of a father and his young daughter's lives terribly cut short in California last week:
A community is in mourning after a tragic plane crash claimed the lives of a beloved teen athlete and her father.
Kelly and her father, Pascal Reid, were killed when the small plane they were in crashed into a Fullerton warehouse Thursday afternoon. The explosion injured 19 people working in the building.
We covered that crash when it happened, before it was clear who was in the plane:
Audio of Kelly's father making a mayday call right before the crash was also released.
As awful as it is, it is something of a relief to know that young Kelly was a professed Christian and had plainly and fully given her life to Christ.
Here's her testimony just weeks before she and her father died:
It is worth reprinting in full here:
I would call myself a Christian. But meanwhile, I would still just gossip and lie. I would listen to bad music. Overall, I just had a bad perspective on my relationship with God. I viewed it more as a one-sided relationship where I would only pray or read the Bible when it was convenient or when I needed something. I knew that I wasn't living every breath for Him.
And then a verse was brought up. Isaiah 59:2. And then, after that verse, I just kept re-re-reading it. Because I'd never heard it before. I mean, God really opened my eyes to see that the reason my relationship with God was so hindered, and why I was so separated from God, was that I was still living in my sin.
Going home that night, I just kept thinking, and asking myself the question: If God isn't worth living for, then what is?
For reference, the verse from Isaiah that changed Kelly's life, Isaiah 59:2. is:
But your iniquities have separated
you from your God;
your sins have hidden his face from you,
so that he will not hear.
She got the Word and gave herself to God ... and now she rests with Him. God is good.
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