Kathy's Testimony---Lynda ....Given January 22, 1995

We were having a series of lessons on love and our choir director, Allen Harris of North Oxford Baptist Church asked if I would give my testimony about Lynda.  He had asked me before but it was the 20th anniversary of Lynda coming to live with us and I wanted to try to tell God's story to honor Him and Lynda.

It was difficult to talk about a lot of the things that had happened during the previous 20 years and I rarely could do it without crying.  I was not a public speaker and in fact speaking in front of a group of people was not something a person with social anxiety dreamed of doing.  The desire to tell Lynda's story and God's unending love was greater than my fear.

When I gave the testimony on the 20th anniversary in 1995, I had no idea how much longer Lynda would be with me.  We had entered a new phase of our lives with Lynda living at the North Mississippi Regional Center in Oxford which was our hometown.  Now in 2014, I know that this testimony was almost the half-way mark of our journey.  Lynda entered heaven on August 3, 2013.  This January 22nd would have been the 39th anniversary of her first day as my daughter.

There was only one copy of the testimony and it was a video rather than a DVD.  After moving back to Booneville, I tried to watch the video and it had all types of static and rolling lines on it.  I was heartsick but kept the video in hope that it might someday be able to be restored.  Then we moved two years ago to a different house and it was lost in the many boxes that were packed by professional packers.  We had many boxes of family videos and although I had looked through many of them, I could not find it.  Yesterday, I went into the laundry room and decided to clean out a box that had family pictures that I'd left until I had decided where to display them.  Immediately as I looked into the box, I saw the video label....Kathy's Testimony, January 22, 1995.  God is amazing but I still couldn't look at it since we didn't have a video player.  All day I prayed to God to restore the video to it's original quality so I could share His story of how He used Lynda in ways only He could do.  After hours of work, Russ was able to convert the video to a DVD and load it to You Tube and as you can see, it is as viewable as the day I spoke 19 years ago.  This is Lynda's story as designed by God and told by her mother.  To God be the glory.  Great things He has done!