Willance didn\u2019t make it. Went too long without oxygen. That simple.<\/p>\n
But there\u2019s nothing simple about grief. What can I say? My heart is broken\u2014grief multiplied by all the broken hearts of those who loved Williance.<\/p>\n
Of course, as a Christian, the feelings are mixed with hope. Williance came from a community who shared a deep, robust faith in the One who said \u201cI am the resurrection and the life,\u201d and \u201cwhosoever believes in me will live even if he dies.\u201d They (and I) know Williance is in a better place and one day we will have a glorious reunion.<\/p>\n
And there was something else that brought hope to me yesterday\u2014 Chrystelle\u2019s friends from our Finishers group at Amarillo College\u2014some of whom came at 3:00 a.m. Friday when they first heard of the accident. <\/p>\n
I saw them hold her, cry with her, share those awkward silences when no one knows quite what to say, but they were there, never leaving her side. Not because they had been in some club together, but because they loved their friend.<\/p>\n
And that\u2019s what friends do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Willance didn\u2019t make it. Went too long without oxygen. That simple. But there\u2019s nothing simple about grief. What can I say? My heart is broken\u2014grief multiplied by all the broken hearts of those who loved Williance. Of course, as a Christian, the feelings are mixed with hope. Williance came from a community who shared a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1832"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1836,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832\/revisions\/1836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}