It has been a while since I visited my Dad's memorial site, and even longer since I posted in the journal.  However, after receiving a teary phone call from my mom I felt I needed to share with you our phone converstaion.

My mom told me about going grocery shopping at Wal-Mart.  It was just like every other time she shopped at Wally World.  She finished her shopping and was loading her car with her groceries.  As she is putting stuff in the trunk of her car, she notices a man approaching her out of the corner of her eye.  She was bit nervous, so she hurriedly put the remaining groceries in the car.  As the man gets closer to her car he began to look somewhat familiar to my mom.

Finally the man asks, "Are you Roy Collett's wife?" 

My mom is taken back and tries to compose herself as she replies, "Yes, I am."

The man proceeds to tell my mom this story about how my Dad touched his life.  Evidently this man was not a Christian.  He met my Dad at the gym years ago and they often worked out together.  It turns out that my Dad through example was witnessing to this man. 

The man told my mom that my Dad never preached his faith at the gym but he showed his love for God through example.  He told my mom that there were several times he left the gym saying, "I want to be like him, like Roy Collett". 

But he never went to church, he wasn't even a member of a church. It was until after learning of my Dad's death that he became a Christian and now he is a faithful church goer.  He says he credits my dad's life and death for saving his life.

Isn't that amazing.  I knew my dad touched people when he was alive but he is still doing it even after his death.  What a wonderful Disciple of Christ my Dad was/is.