The Time in Reverse
Posted by Truth77 on March 11, 2009
Shawn Thornton an Obituary
Today we come to celebrate the passing of a man that got a late start in life. Shawn was a man devoted to his wife and Kids for he knew how important it was to train them how to love others.
Shawn did not always do it right you might say that he really did it wrong all the time. The one thing he came to understand was that he was really not a failure but a total success. The reason that he came to know this was that he held to the thought “it is not how you start, it is how you finish.”
He realized that just like when you start to learn anything new you are never good at it. But in time if you commit yourself to the study and application of your knowledge of any subject you love then it will become part of you. This is why on March 29th the year 1994 he gave his life over to the care and watch of Jesus Christ. At this point there was no turning back for him.
You can say it was a long and hard journey to getting clean and sober but after seven years the Lord blessed him with the meeting of a wonderful and beautiful woman named Kristi Marie Oberle. If you were to say that she took his breath away it would be an understatement. They married on May 11th 2001 with many hopes and dreams.
They only after one month became pregnant with Chloe Lynn Thornton. She would be for Shawn the showing of just how much His God Jesus had forgiven him of all his trespasses. Then only twenty one moths later they were blessed with Zechariah Christopher Thornton. This was a pleasure to their hearts to have a son.
Then while Shawn was working over three hundred miles away from home the two felt a leading by God to try and have another baby. They conceived a child and found out they were with child while on vacation at Shawn’s parent’s house in Arizona. It was a shock and surprise. It was not long after returning home that the two separated from each other. They had just gone through so much in the seven years that it had strained their hopes and dreams so much.
They were not sure if they could move forward with each other. The world they lived in was in such trouble and she had just acquired a job at Wells Fargo and Shawn had been put into a new career his own business by his mother Christy. The company ACN a worldwide direct selling telecommunications company endorsed by Donald Trump, which was at that time one of the world’s wealthiest men. The future was very unsure for the both of them but one thing they did know. God was still with the both of them and that if they both submitted to His will things might work out.
All Shawn wanted was for their hopes and dreams to be realized one more time so that God would be glorified in them. But the most daunting thought on Shawn’s mind that he would go down in history as a man that failed at everything he did. But he came to remember that if he did not stay down and listen to all the voices that would tell him he could not succeed in life. He had to only listen to those that saw the gifts in him and believe he would succeed in life if he NEVER GAVE UP! Because he knew the word of God said “As a man thinks in his heart so is he!”
So he made a resolve that no matter what he would not stop until he had realized the dream set in his heart by God to be a man after God own heart. Even if that meant he would fail but always keep getting up even after he fell down. He knew that there was no other place to go other than God and not to take advice from people who were not where he wanted to be. Because by listening to them they would one more time steal his dream if he bought into their ideas for his life.
It was a long and hard journey he would say at the end. But a worthwhile one because he had accomplished everything and more than he thought he could. He kept saying that it was because of the revelations he had had while separated from Kristi and the kids. He would say it was a hard time but know in his heart that God was in control of it all that the outcome would be great and it was. The kids grew up to become very successful people that changed the world as we know it today. As for Shawn and Kristi they lived and one night while laying in each other’s arms went home quietly to be together with the Lord so many years before had drew them back together to Love each other more than any other person on the face of the planet.
There kids would say for many years after their deaths that their parents showed them how to live life without fear of man but in fear of God and that they owed all they ever knew about God to their Mother and Father. So as we look at the lives of this family we have to ask ourselves “How will we affect the world we live in?” it will not be an easy task but when looking back we all can see how God gave us all the strength to live out our lives for his glory
