Carrie Ingram
My precious cousin Donna, from an early age of my life, she taught us about Jesus, the Bible, singing about the Lord. Her love for children and teaching is who she was, she used her talents to serve the Lord.
One of my fondest memories was when she came to WV with her harp and gathered all of us little cousins around and played the harp for us and sang about the Lord and teaching us crafts.
How it was tied into the crafts.
Looking at all the pieces of crafts before we started was a lot of pieces and being overwhelmed with how much there was, a mess of it, and being able to see how beautiful it was when it was when it was completed.
In working on our crafts, I learned how to trust God have faith in him. And when I messed up on the craft, it was ok to just go back correct that mistake in the same way I would mess up many times along my journey and my walk with the Lord, to just go back and ask for forgiveness and get back up and keep following Jesus. This craft project to a young girl that looked very overwhelming and I feared I could t do it, but my cousin Donna assured me it was going to be ok, and it wasn’t a project we did in one day. It took time, and patience, and obedience to follow the plan through, and isn’t that just like how our Lord and Savior is with us? We’re, all a mess and in pieces, scared, afraid, messing up from time to time, we’re not perfect, but he loves us and tells us it’s ok, we can go back to our Father and confess to him our wrong doings and repent, and he will forgive us and always be beside us when we fail him, because we will. And in the end of our journey walk with the Lord, just like when we completed our crafts, how beautiful it looked when we did it, according to the plan, how beautiful it is going to be in heaven, how we will rejoice when we’re finished with our work here on earth, how beautiful it must be where my cousin Donna is. Here work for the Lord is completed and I’m so glad she planted that seed in my life, and to a young girl her teaching me about Jesus, even in worship, praise, and crafts.
I will miss her, but I know she is with our Lord and rejoicing and greeted by our family and loved ones who have made it home.

