Comments (9) Okay, folks, here’s a real treat. It’s a post from Tim, that fella I went off up North and married. He told me this story on the phone today in hopes that I would post it but I told him I could never remember it the way he told it, so he’d have to write it out, and he did. I hope you enjoy it. This is the kind of God’s poetry I’m talking about:
At church this morning during share time, Pastor Kevin related this amazing story. I had to share it with you all.
If you’ve been listening to the news this week you probably heard the story of the Maxwell family of Fayetteville, N.C.
If not, here’s the basics: Sometime in the early evening on Monday Billy Maxwell shot and killed his wife, his son and his daughter, then turned the gun on himself and committed suicide. It’s been reported that the daughter hid in her closet, in fear of her father, no doubt.
The community has been reeling in the wake of the murder-suicide.
Billy Maxwell was a well-respected and beloved businessman. A developer, like his father before him. He was also a devoted Christian. He and wife Kathryn were active members at Snyder Memorial Baptist Church, one of the largest in Fayetteville. The couple’s children — Connor, 17, and Cameron, 15 — attended Village Christian Academy.
The Fayetteville Observer reported:
Karen Spears Zacharias had her first kiss in a trailer, smoked her first and last cigarette in a trailer, asked Jesus into her heart on bended knee in a trailer, fell madly in love in a trailer (a couple of different times), and gave birth to her firstborn child in a trailer. More...
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