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  • Meredith Sheppard
  • November 26, 2022

“In everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.” 1 Thess. 5:18 NKJV

For weeks and weeks my cellphone was behaving badly. Glitchy. Freezing. Not getting all text messages. Text messages not sending. Notifications stopped making sounds. Phone stopped ringing. If I wasn’t holding my phone and feeling or hearing the vibration, calls went unanswered.

I Googled my phone’s many symptoms in an attempt to regain sound. Nothing worked. I reached my limit and marched into a T-Mobile store. It actually made me feel better when the cell phone professional tinkered with my phone for quite a while before saying, “This is weird.” I was then advised to take my phone to another location for a computerized diagnostic assessment. Whew!

Finally, I ended up at a different store where I selected a brand-new phone. The technician was both pleasant and patient as she explained the features and prepared to download the memory from my old phone onto the new one. At one point I was asked if I wanted all of my old text messages. I decided to keep only the past six months; that way I could go through them and easily delete what I no longer wanted or needed. With the push of a button and in the merest of moments, years of messages vanished. That’s when I remembered all the text and voicemail messages from Dr. Lois Evans that I’d saved, intentionally. Gone! Grief, all over again. I miss my friend. 

Immediately, I was reminded of Dorcas (Acts 9) and how when she died the women who knew and loved her wept and showed Peter the garments Dorcas had made for them. When we lose loved ones, somehow things they’ve given to us become more precious. That’s why I almost had a meltdown right in the T-Mobile store.

Thankfully, Dr. Lois Evans’ legacy lives on. She’s touched countless lives in countless ways and left an indelible imprint upon us. I give God thanks and praise for the life of my friend and the 20 years of friendship and shared ministry. “[We] show that [we] are a letter from Christ, the result of [her] ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.” (2 Cor. 3:3)

The messages from Lois, not just those texted or left as a voicemail, but those written upon my heart and life, cannot be erased, and for that I am forever thankful.

This Post Has 2 Comments

  1. Jacqi B. Henry December 12, 2022

    Absolutely Beautiful! 🙏🏽😢💔💞🌹

  2. Betty Marsters December 15, 2022

    Dear Meredith: What a beautiful friendship you had with Dr. Evans. And that friendship is still with you today even though her texts may be gone, how she touched your life will always be alive. You will draw from her friendship every day I’m sure. What a beautiful tribute you wrote about your dear friend, Dr Lois Evans.

    You are so right – when we lose loved ones, somehow things they’ve given to us become more precious. Brings me back to when I visited my Mom in Ottawa one summer and she gave me my Christmas present – all wrapped up in pretty paper and told me to open it Christmas morning and not one day before. But my mom passed into Glory that September and I could not bring myself to open that gift until the following February. When I opened it, with emotions flooding over me, it was a beautiful musical clock that I treasure to do this day. It is so precious. And though I can’t chat or visit with her now, how she touched my heart and life will be forever with me. Yes, she was my mom but she was also my friend.
    Love you Meredith! God bless you.

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