This last week makes it two years since my mom got to meet Jesus face to face. I am sometimes tempted to dwell on how young she was (55), and how that doesn't seem like enough time. But then, I remember a verse my mom taught me... "For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will be faithful to complete it." (Philippians 1:6).

She taught me how to love Jesus when I felt like it and when I didn't feel like it. She taught me how to set goals and pursue them with everything I had. She taught me how to laugh so hard I felt sick. She taught me that when life is unimaginably hard, God is still good...He is still faithful. So, when I think about it that way, she finished every good work God had for her...and she did it in just 55 years. I am proud to be her daughter, and because of her witness (and dad's), I am a child of the King, too.

-Mindy Cariker Wiggins

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