Thursday, March 29, 2007
Ex-Issaquah star Kim Evanger: A young, extraordinary life cut short - Seattle P-I
... On March 17, Kim, who competed in triathlons and was an experienced cyclist, was riding her bike down a busy road when she fell and was run over by a passing semi truck. She died instantly, according to her father.
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[At her service] her brother, David, spoke. He was watching college basketball at a sports bar in Dallas when his cell phone rang and he learned that his sister had been killed. He ran outside into an alley and broke down.
"Then a peace that is not of this earth came over me," he said. "I saw and I heard Kim talking to me."
David said she had a message: "She said, 'Do not question God. Do not ask why this happened.' She said, 'I know why this happened. There is a reason.'"
David, fighting through persistent tears, then looked up at the sanctuary.
"Every one of you is supposed to be here in this room," he said. "She told me, 'I need you to tell them to consider the condition of their own hearts. Just tell them to consider, to open their hearts to God.'"
It was the most moving expression of religious faith I've heard.
This is the most excruciating experience a family, even one with profound faith, can experience. Yet Kim's glowing presence nearly overcame it.
"She was a gift, even if God took her away early," Marc Evanger said.
That's the comfort for her family and friends.
That spark that she gave them, although it glowed far too briefly, has reignited inside them and eventually will burn away the black clouds that shroud their hearts.
And it will endure. [end]
... On March 17, Kim, who competed in triathlons and was an experienced cyclist, was riding her bike down a busy road when she fell and was run over by a passing semi truck. She died instantly, according to her father.
...
[At her service] her brother, David, spoke. He was watching college basketball at a sports bar in Dallas when his cell phone rang and he learned that his sister had been killed. He ran outside into an alley and broke down.
"Then a peace that is not of this earth came over me," he said. "I saw and I heard Kim talking to me."
David said she had a message: "She said, 'Do not question God. Do not ask why this happened.' She said, 'I know why this happened. There is a reason.'"
David, fighting through persistent tears, then looked up at the sanctuary.
"Every one of you is supposed to be here in this room," he said. "She told me, 'I need you to tell them to consider the condition of their own hearts. Just tell them to consider, to open their hearts to God.'"
It was the most moving expression of religious faith I've heard.
This is the most excruciating experience a family, even one with profound faith, can experience. Yet Kim's glowing presence nearly overcame it.
"She was a gift, even if God took her away early," Marc Evanger said.
That's the comfort for her family and friends.
That spark that she gave them, although it glowed far too briefly, has reignited inside them and eventually will burn away the black clouds that shroud their hearts.
And it will endure. [end]
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