About Us
We don’t get to choose the chapters in our story-of-life book, but we do get to help write them and that’s what we’re doing through our unexpected tragedy of losing our precious, signature Joshua and being forced to live life without him. God is helping us turn our tragedy into triumph and our mess into a miracle; and believing day by day we will see a beautiful life again while waiting to be reunited forever with our handsome Joshie Pie, whom our King Jesus is enjoying.
We’re the Greens. We were a normal, living life everyday family until our Joshua, only 22 years old, was suddenly and unexpectedly taken away from us on September 25, 2015, from a tragic motorcycle accident from someone not paying any attention to the road. A big part of our hearts died that day too and we were all left with a huge hole in our soul, entering the deepest level of sadness ever experienced.
We were faced with a God we had never known before, along with the stark reality that our lives would never be the same again. That tragic moment caused us to question everything. We were truly at a loss as to how we would ever be able to release the pain and anger, experiencing life’s devastatingly raw emotions that hurl you in every direction.
We had to relearn how to keep the faith during the most difficult time of struggle and allow Jesus to come and sit in our mess with us, letting Him fully grieve with us and feel every ounce of pain. We learned how to expose our raw and wounded hearts; letting our hearts lead the way in our journey of devastation.
Pain, trauma and tragedy is unavoidable and will either torture and cripple you and cause you to severely suffer; or you will use the devastating pain to discover how to tell your heart to beat again; how to live life again; and how to get back up again…finding love, hope, healing, forgiveness, beauty, blossoms, and new beginnings in life.
Josh’s extraordinary love helps us every day to keep our own hearts open to love; being able to smile, laugh, and dream again.
About Josh
Joshie Pie (our nickname for him no matter his age) had so much life to live and love to give.
Josh was getting ready to attend Firefighting and EMT school, and because of his caring and loving heart, would’ve been absolutely amazing.
Our Joshua was a big, beautiful ball of love from the start of life; and his heart had so many facets of beauty that others were drawn to.
His life was all about his family and spoiling his precious princess Chloe. He would paint her fingernails and toenails, dance around the house with her, sing her favorite songs with her and watch her favorite movies with her, endlessly play games, put many braids in her hair, and loved spending time at the park with her and Alisha, his wife.
Josh loved basketball and was a “slam dunk” of love with all of us. He lived for the day; was the star of our hearts; and the producer of many years of priceless, precious memories. He had a “one of a kind” contagious smile, laugh, and the deepest heart of love that would simply melt your heart.
He had an insurmountable amount of patience with his hands…as he could untangle anything!! And build beauty! He loved drawing angel wings. He also had a true gift with kids as they were drawn to him like a magnet. He could walk into any room and God would always seem to lead him to the ones who needed some extra love and attention. He had a brave heart of patience to withstand many storms that were thrown his way and through them all, he had an everlasting love for people, and he always chose to forgive. He encouraged everyone and could lift your spirits in a moment; and his beautiful heart had a basket of hope for the brokenhearted and he would lead them with gentle hands to God’s river of love.
Josh loved good food…and boy could he ever make some amazing fried potatoes, peanut butter fudge, and if you asked anyone who knew him…they would tell you he made the best brownies in the whole world.
Josh was made to transplant many hearts to believe in love again; and he was all about mixing together the right ingredients every day for what really mattered…life, family, food & faith.
