The best
purpose of your life
Is to
live your life
So that
the purpose of your life
Out lives
your life
Today there are many people
remembering Arlynne Holyer, I remember her as a ray of sunshine in our school
and a dedicated Christ follower.
Arlynne passed
away on a missions trip two years ago while she was dirt biking. I first saw it on Facebook (that is the most
efficient way of spreading news) and I didn’t believe it. I thought there was a girl in my class with
that name but I couldn’t, quite honestly
didn’t want to, believe that it was her so I resorted to Google (that is where
you go to confirm something right) and discovered that it was true, I went
numb. Death is a part of life, I had
experienced my grandmother suddenly passing away nine months earlier but it was
a totally different feeling when it is a class mate, someone just like you,
whose funeral you are attending. Arlynne
was doing great things, I had heard her talk about a missions trip to Montreal
that she had taken the previous summer and how she was excited to go on another
one over the summer for a 8 weeks to different communities to do different
activities. I knew she was going to do
great things in life. After hearing
about what happened I couldn’t wrap my head around why God would take someone
doing such great things for Him and His kingdom. Going to her funeral was proof of how many
people she had already impacted in her short, but very well lived sixteen years. The service was beautiful and the main thing
I took away was that life is short and nobody knows how short, so live each day
sharing your passion to its fullest.
As young
people, kids, teenagers, we think we are invincible, unshakeable, nobody can
stop us. Being invincible can be bad if
we put ourselves in danger trying to do crazy stunts but can also be good when
we use it to change the world around us.
Arlynne had a firm faith in God and she wanted to share that with as
many people as she could. From reading
notes to keep family and friends posted online as to what she was doing it
while on missions was easy to tell she loved what she was doing and that she
wanted to, and probably would, do it for the rest of her life. I found it
inspiring to know that even as a sixteen year old we can be making a huge
impact on people’s lives.
The link is to a clip of Arlynne’s
baptism video, it is amazing to hear about the transformation in her life and
what God was doing in it to make her who she was and how she was giving back to
Him and the community around her.
With Arlynne
leading by example I think we should find our calling and start living our
lives right now, not wait until we are older, when we think we will be wiser
and more people will pay attention to us.
People are paying attention right now, you may not know it, but what you
do and say, how you act; people are observing it and they might not even
realize it. Seeing the response on
Facebook and going back to school in September after a memorial assembly for
Arlynne, the little stories of moments people had with her, and how they
remember little things about her was incredible to see. I remember watching her
during a worship chapel on a Friday morning at school and just seeing the
passion and love for God and wanting to have the type of faith and relationship
that she had with Him. She had a great
laugh too, it was one that you could hear down the hallway and know it was her,
she always had a great smile on and just lit up any room she walked into. Doing the little things like laughing,
smiling, just having small talk with friends and people around you does have an
impact and it is those little things are what people will remember you
for.
What do you
want to be remembered for? The answer to that question is what you need to
start doing with your life. Arlynne
wanted to share Christ with people around her, she didn’t tell people her goal
and wait until she was older or thought she would do a better job, she started
right away. We need to start making our
mark in our city, community and world and start our legacy so others can see
and be inspired to make their own.
Arlynne gave us a wonderful example of how to begin making a difference
around us and we need to follow that example and continue passionately living
life like her and keep her memory alive while we do it. Like the saying at the beginning of the blog,
we want what we do with our life to continue on after our life ends, Arlynne’s
purpose and passion in life will never die, she lived out the best purpose, did
it passionately and loved it and I want that for everybody else.
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