In May of 2017, a horrendous car wreck took the life of my 3 year old daughter, Keren, my mother-in-law, Delores, and father-in-law, Delmer, and critically injured my 4 year old daughter, Phoebe, who turned 5 in the hospital 5 days later. Phoebe has made a full recovery after enduring a ruptured spleen, air on her lungs, a severely broken arm/elbow, and neck/spinal injuries that, according to the doctors, are beyond scientific explanation that she survived.
Our world has been turned upside down but the one thing that gets us through is God. He has never abandoned us and has constantly been our strength. He has recently laid it upon my heart that I need to nourish my relationship with Him. I have read devotionals and daily scriptures but I have neglected to get into the word myself and actively seek who God wants ME to be, according to His Word. That is why I have started this blog. To document my journey of growing closer to Him and, in doing so, I’m hoping to help others along the way find their way to God and what He wants for them too.
I’m going to begin this blog by archiving all of the Facebook posts that I have posted since the wreck. Not the posts that show our everyday life, but the ones I have written that show my inner turmoil and the relief He has given me.
Thank you for coming on this journey with me.
Fighting Fire with Light 
You simply amaze me with your strength and faith ,God is so good and I’d love to follow you on this journey ,you inspire me kelly !!!love and hugs ..Tish and Jake ❤️❤️
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I HAVE FOLLOWED THE WORDS THAT GOD HAS GIVEN YOU 2 SHARE. I COULD NOT SEE THE PAIN IN WHICH YOU ALL AND YOUR LOVED ONES WALKED IN…YOU ALL ARE AMAZING IN GOD’S WORD..NOT ONLY DID YOUR BABY GIRL GO 2 HEAVEN.BUT HE ALSO TOOK YOUR FATHER AND MOTHR.I PRAYED SO HARD AS I FOLLOWED IN YOUR FOOT STEPS.THE HOSPITAL WHERE YOUR BABY GIRL LAY IN GOD’S HAND WITH HIM ALLOWING THE DR 2 DO SUCH GREAT WORK…THE DAY I SEEN HER STAND UP TOUCHED MY HEART SO DEEP….I LOVE YOUR FAITH AND YOU HAVE GROWN 2 BE SO STRONG.YOU ALL ARE AMAZING IN SHAREING YOUR LIFE…GOD IS GREAT..I’M SURE EVERYDAY OPENS NEW DOORS…I JUST WISH 2 ONE DAY BE AS STRONG IN MY FAITH AS YOU….FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART……GOD LOVES YOU AND SO DO I…SHARON BARTLEY
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I believe you teach with my daughter Mrs. Hall. I remember hearing about the accident and praying for your family. I lost my 23 year old daughter in a car accident on 10-5-99. She was going to the bank for me. She took a road from Paris to Georgetown that she had never driven on. She overcorrected on the narrow 2 lane road, was hit by a truck and killed. Oddly she was hit on the passenger side and the State Police told us it should not have been a fatal accident. But God’s plan was for her to leave us that day. It devastated our family. It took not only Haley’s sister from her, but also her mother, as I am no longer the person I was that day. It strengthened our marriage but also drove my son to alcoholism, from which he still struggles. The accident was a direct consequence of Haley having her 3rd child, due any time. Because had never planned on a third child. When my two oldest were 12 and 10, I became pregnant with Haley. I believe she was God’s gift to me to help me have some semblance of normalcy. She was 11 at the time. A middle schooler involved in dance, theater, Peer Mediation and Academic Team. I was forced to put one foot in front of the other. For several years I moved in a fog, just going through the motions of living. Then in 2010 Haley had Cullen and that huge whole in my heart began to fill.
I rarely tell the story and am not sure why I felt compelled to reach out to you. But I get it, I understand your loss, your grief and your pain. I want to tell you that it does get easier. I miss Holly every day. I.miss the things that life took away from her,finishing up her first year of teaching, instead of only having 6 weeks. Getting married, having children, seeing her nephews and her niece. But now I can remember those things without wanting to scream. Without burying myself in bed and making every one around me miserable. It does get easier. Not better ever, but easier. I can think of our happy times.
I admire your strength and your faith. God will see you through, or pull you through but you will survive even when you don’t think you can.
Bless you, your precious family and the ones you lost. Sometimes it helps to know that what you feel us normal, that everyone’s grief is on a different time Frame and that you are doing the best you can, because you are.
God bless,
Denise Wilson
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Thank you for sharing your story. God is our strength.
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