Bridgette Worthington Memorial Video 1 - "Younger Years"

Memorial Video for Our Bridgette www.mybridgette.com
Loving Wife, Mother, Sister, Daughter & Friend
February 23, 1987 to May 27, 2011
Our Bridgette,
Bridgette was extraordinary. She was life, love, and passion personified. She laughed hard, lived large, and treasured her every breath. Bridgette was Ours. Over 24 years ago, I believe that God saw a void in this crazy family, a missing role that would need to be played by someone more remarkable than most. In His sovereignty and goodness, He fashioned her with great care, and set her out to run a race, a race that I'm convinced few could ever have qualified for. She was stubborn, and tenaciously focused, yet compassionate to a fault, full of life, and officially the easiest person on the planet to make laugh. She was a gift to us all. On September 1, 2007 Bridgette married Cain, her equal in all the remarkable qualities that honorable men spend lifetimes achieving. The following year, they gave birth to their son, Graham Ryder, a treasure of a child in every way, and probably one of the largest reasons she fought as hard and long as she did. From that moment on Bridgette's life took a turn, and she and her beautiful new family were ushered into a season of pain that became a major theme of the latter part of her life. Yet she kept believing, kept laughing, and lived each day she was given to its fullest potential. Her passing has planted a massive "why?" in the hearts of hundreds of people that know and love her, and provoked thinking on the inside of me that I imagine only things like this can provoke. God meant it when He said that life really is a vapor. The brief 24 years of Bridgette's life came and went with mind-reeling swiftness...and only lives that end like hers did, seem to prompt the questions in life that really matter. What was the point? Why the way that it all happened? I realize now that the point was love. This life isn't about the houses and toys that we work ourselves into the ground trying to attain. It's about loving every person in front of us, one at a time, and ultimately taking on the nature of Jesus. Bridgette could have been angry with the Lord for a thousand reasons, but never once in 4 years did any of us hear her complain. Just a couple of weeks before her passing, she said to me "I just keep thinking of Job...He had it a lot worse than me." What faith! Bridgette grew not just to accept her cross, but to embrace it with a thankful heart. I can't help but feel honored to have lived with a miracle...a life created to live & die, and in having done so, I believe she walked out the fullness of her destiny. Bridgette changed me. Her un-dying love changed us all. And although our hearts will never stop aching for her... we will all keep living, keep loving, and keep telling our God that He's faithful, because that's what Our Bridgette would have wanted.

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