Lorri's celebration

In very few minutes, the service to celebrate Lorri's life will begin. I knew I couldn't
make the trip out east again, with taking care of the kids and this time of the year, but I
wish I could have. Not just for Lorri, gratefully she knows how I feel, but to be there
with so many wonderful people I adore, remembering the greatness of someone
who made a huge difference in the world. That is hard to miss.

But I didn't miss the last many years of her life. Or miss watching with awe as she
quietly and calmly, but with fierce determination, served and served and served and
served. Paraphrasing what a friend of mine said, "she saved an entire generation
of youth." I actually believe it was more than one generation. But either way, she
is the reason so many children and young women and young men know their
Heavenly Father loves them. What a legacy, what a daughter of God.

That, indeed, is reason to celebrate today.