If you had the pleasure of knowing Colby before his accident, you would be smiling because he always had a way to make you laugh. His accident occurred at Tillman's Corner in Mobile, Alabama on February 24, 2004. When I think of my son, Colby, I think of his friends and how much he thoroughly loved his friends. As part of Colby's testimony, Colby now has three young boys named after him. Colby embodies a wonderful testimony to his life, but it doesn't stop there...

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My father died five days before Colby after a long battle with lung cancer. The last time I saw my son was at my mother's house after my dad's funeral. He was called up on active duty as an E-5 in the Army due to leave in a few months to Desert Storm. I was scared for him but also proud as we have three generations of military men in our family. The very last conversation I had with my son was the evening he passed on his way home from Mobile. I said to him, "Son, you be careful. The roads are really wet." He replied, "Momma, I will be fine. I am in my new truck." I felt something make me pause and I said, "Colby, do you know you belong to the Lord?" He responded quickly, "Yes ma'am, I know I do. Momma, I love you." I said, "Son, I love you, too."

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​"While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are Eternal."

2 Corinthians 4:18