Comments on: A Life Well Lived http://www.multnomah.edu/blog/2012/08/02/a-life-well-lived/ The Official Multnomah University Blog Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:52:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Michelle Peel http://www.multnomah.edu/blog/2012/08/02/a-life-well-lived/#comment-26095 Michelle Peel Mon, 13 Aug 2012 19:11:58 +0000 http://www.multnomah.edu/blog/?p=8537#comment-26095 Thanks for taking the time to respond and thanks for sharing this story, Bob. It is amazing indeed to see what the Lord is able to do in and through our lives when they are yielded to Him. Appreciate your ongoing encouragement, Michelle

Yes, Maxine, you are right! He is a faithful God, who is sovereign and in control! Praying for you as you continue to process through this grief. Blessings, Michelle

]]> By: Michelle Peel http://www.multnomah.edu/blog/2012/08/02/a-life-well-lived/#comment-26094 Michelle Peel Mon, 13 Aug 2012 19:07:45 +0000 http://www.multnomah.edu/blog/?p=8537#comment-26094 It was great seeing you and Ron as well, Eilene.

So glad to hear you enjoyed reading this month’s person to person. Yes, funerals are often difficult, aren’t they? Though a beautiful opportunity for us to look at life and how we are living, as a wise man once said :)

Blessings to you both for a beautiful week ahead, Michelle

]]> By: Michelle Peel http://www.multnomah.edu/blog/2012/08/02/a-life-well-lived/#comment-26093 Michelle Peel Mon, 13 Aug 2012 19:02:26 +0000 http://www.multnomah.edu/blog/?p=8537#comment-26093 You are most welcome, Scott. It was a privilege to know your son for the short time that I did, and an honor to be able to celebrate the story of his life…to God be the glory!

Know that you, Christie and the family are, and will continue to be in our thoughts and prayers as you walk through this season of grief.

With all our love, prayers and deepest sympathies,

Michelle (for the Multnomah family)

]]> By: Maxine Lewis http://www.multnomah.edu/blog/2012/08/02/a-life-well-lived/#comment-25948 Maxine Lewis Fri, 10 Aug 2012 01:36:25 +0000 http://www.multnomah.edu/blog/?p=8537#comment-25948 This story reminded me of a youth trip in 1976 near Lewiston, ID where we had two youth drown in the same manner – one falling in to the eddy at the bottom of an upper waterfall and the other trying to rescue him. This is the second time in the last month that I have had to recall that time as I was told of another two who drowned in the same manner. Thankfully, Yahushua is in control and we can trust Him.

]]> By: Robert "Bob" Brichoux http://www.multnomah.edu/blog/2012/08/02/a-life-well-lived/#comment-25918 Robert "Bob" Brichoux Thu, 09 Aug 2012 04:43:03 +0000 http://www.multnomah.edu/blog/?p=8537#comment-25918 Michelle, your story reminds me of a woman in Wycliffe who was the best friend of another young woman I was courting. They had gone to Kansas City Bible College together and were very close. Seemingly I was unintentionally interfering in their relationship and the friend was upset with me a lot of the time. Looking back after my training as an MFT, I realized her insecurity of having been raised in an alcoholic family lay behind her attitude toward me. The two of them went to Papua New Guinea while I went to the Philippines.
Later, the friend returned to the States to earn a PhD in ethno-musicology. During that time of study, she also received in-depth counseling. The next time I saw her, she was on her way to New Guinea with her degree in hand and greeted me with a warm hug at Wycliffe’s then home office in Southern California! Her recovery was remarkable! A few years later she was one of the eight victims of a plane crash on the field (Wycliffe’s only fatal flight in forty years then–none since, I think) of using aircraft. For an unhappy person to have recovered so well so as to forgive me and to earn the PhD to help her fellow translators and to help Papuans to gain a new appreciation for their native music and then die so tragically is like Brett. Her waterfall was a falling plane!
I always enjoy your column. God bless you and us all.
Bob

]]> By: Eilene Roecker http://www.multnomah.edu/blog/2012/08/02/a-life-well-lived/#comment-25898 Eilene Roecker Wed, 08 Aug 2012 19:17:35 +0000 http://www.multnomah.edu/blog/?p=8537#comment-25898 It was so good to see you last Thurs. tho’ the occasion was not a joyful one.
I really liked the article on Brett, thanks for passing it forward. Eilene

]]> By: Scott McLean http://www.multnomah.edu/blog/2012/08/02/a-life-well-lived/#comment-25768 Scott McLean Mon, 06 Aug 2012 15:40:53 +0000 http://www.multnomah.edu/blog/?p=8537#comment-25768 thank u Michelle for that article. It is so thoughtful and uplifting…not only to me ..but to Brett. It is so incredible to learn so much about the love of Christ in and thru my son…so far beyond what I could see with dimmed eyes right in front of me. This hurts but I know how much our Savior loves Christie and I ….the Lord is moving and working and I pray you will see more and more young men and women ….catch fire… with His Burning Love,,,,

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