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Author Insight
Friends in Heaven?
Recently, Jay and I heard our pastor share the story of how Peachtree began more than 100 years ago. As I listened, I flashed back to the day Jay interviewed for a job at the church. We learned that the Honours, returning home from the funeral of their infant son, Lance, saw children playing along the road and felt called to start a Sunday school in his memory. Their story touched us deeply because we, too, had lost an infant son. Through Brock’s life and death, God wrote these words on my heart: There is a heaven. That loss became part of the journey that led us into full-time ministry in Chicago and eventually to Atlanta. God can use our deepest pain in ways we could never have asked for or imagined. The Honours planted the seeds of Peachtree in memory of Lance. Years later, God used our story, including Brock’s, to shape our own calling to ministry. Through Jay’s leadership, that ministry has touched lives in Atlanta and around the world. I like to imagine that Brock and Lance are friends in heaven. What a joy it will be to see them both one day! Our story of finding God in the midst of ordinary life, even in the deepest sorrow, is woven throughout our book, Breathless Haste: Finding God in Ordinary Life, available in print, ebook, and audiobook wherever books are sold.
Book Excerpt
Breathless Haste
On Saturday morning, Rebecca and I had breakfast with Vic. He shared the story of how the Peachtree church began. In 1909, a couple in a horse and buggy were on their way home from the funeral of their four-month-old son, Lance. They noticed children playing along the road and decided to start a Sunday school for those children to honor the memory of their son. The church grew from there, and Lance’s baby bonnet is contained in the cornerstone of the church. As Vic shared this story, Rebecca and I looked at each other, knowing what the other was thinking. The convergence of their story and ours was amazing. If we had a cornerstone for our life in ministry, it would contain something from Brock’s life. Here we were, one hundred years later in a restaurant located on the property near where their home once stood, feeling led to be a part of carrying on their vision.
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