Loving Losing & Living
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It was the end of October 1998. By Christmas, we were talking and laughing so much, my mom was certain I’d get an engagement ring. I figured it was too soon. But just two months later, Chris showed up at my church for Valentine’s Day. I knew something was up. At the end of service, right before the benediction; they gave Chris the floor. He strolled to the front of the church, and began talking. My stomach was so nervous; I don’t even remember all that he was saying. The next thing I knew, he was kneeling in front of me with a heart-shaped red velvet cake in his hand and a diamond out to the side of the cake plate. My answer was “yes”. Four months later on June 26, 1999 we were married. Just like that. All of the waiting and worrying was over. The Lord knew it the whole time. He was just trying to teach me to accept His will. As I stood there all dressed in white with tears rolling down my face as Chris sang to me on our wedding day, who knew that four years, eight months, and five days later, I’d be at his funeral. Accepting His will, I still had a long way to go in that area. What a hard pill to swallow. Of all the things I imagined myself being in life, a widow was not one of them.
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Loving Losing & Living
Loving, Losing, and Living is one woman’s spiritual journey of how her faith and trust in God helped her through the death of her 32 year old husband who was killed in a car accident. In a five-year period, her status changed from virgin to married to widow and single mother of two small children.
Her faith in God as healer of all wounds, both physical and emotional is what got her through the roughest time of her life. She declares that prayer and praise helped her to the other side of the rainbow, where there was something wonderful awaiting her, after the storm.
About the Author
LaShonda Smalls McElveen is the Pastor and founder of Calvary Christian Outreach Ministry in Sumter, SC. She is married to Lee McElveen and together they have three children. Born in Brooklyn, her family later returned to Olanta,S.C where she spent part of her childhood and then graduated from Lake City High School. She is a graduate of the University Of South Carolina School Of Nursing. She enjoys spending time with family, writing, singing, and ministering the word of God to her congregation. She has a passion for those who are lost, those grieving, and the elderly. Her desire is to fulfill every purpose that God has outlined for her life….to make full proof of her ministry, every ministry.