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You may have messed the terrible story of a father and his young daughter’s lives terribly cut short in California last week:

A community is in mourning after a tragic plane crash claimed the lives of a beloved teen athlete and her father.

Kelly and her father, Pascal Reid, were killed when the small plane they were in crashed into a Fullerton warehouse Thursday afternoon. The explosion injured 19 people working in the building.

We covered that crash when it happened, before it was clear who was in the plane:

Audio of Kelly’s father making a mayday call right before the crash was also released.

As awful as it is, it is something of a relief to know that young Kelly was a professed Christian and had plainly and fully given her life to Christ.

Here’s her testimony just weeks before she and her father died:

It is worth reprinting in full here:

I would call myself a Christian. But meanwhile, I would still just gossip and lie. I would listen to bad music. Overall, I just had a bad perspective on my relationship with God. I viewed it more as a one-sided relationship where I would only pray or read the Bible when it was convenient or when I needed something. I knew that I wasn’t living every breath for Him.

And then a verse was brought up. Isiah 59:2. And then, after that verse, I just kept re-re-reading it. Because I’d never heard it before. I mean, God really opened my eyes to see that the reason my relationship with God was so hindered, and why I was so separated from God, was that I was still living in my sin.

Going home that night, I just kept thinking, and asking myself the question: If God isn’t worth living for, then what is?

For reference, the verse from Isiah that changed Kelly’s life, Isiah 59:2. is:

But your iniquities have separated

you from your God;

your sins have hidden his face from you,

so that he will not hear.

She got the Word and gave herself to God … and now she rests with Him. God is good.

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