The father of a 6-year-old New Jersey girl died from head injuries. a strange accident While playing a badminton racket on the last day of a family vacation, he shared his daughter’s childlike faith and the hope she maintains even in the midst of tragedy.
Jesse Morgan, whose 6-year-old daughter Lucy died unexpectedly in a badminton accident while playing with her siblings, shared with Fox News Digital his daughter’s faith, which sustained the family of six during the unexpected tragedy.
“There is no doubt in my mind that he and his imperfect understanding of life loved Christ and God,” Morgan said. “And, God welcomed him to heaven.”
“It was unbelievably huge,” he said of Lucy’s confidence.
Lucy Morgan, age 6, was vacationing in Maine with her family just days before the fatal accident. (via Jesse Morgan, New Creation Living blog)
Lucy Morgan wrote in her prayer journal, “God is so amazing and He is the true God and He created everything and He died on the cross for our sins.” (via Jesse Morgan, New Creation Living blog)
Morgan said that after the family returned to their home New Jersey home After her daughter died in a hospital in Portland, Maine, a friend left Lucy’s bag with her — which contained the 6-year-old’s beloved journal.
Lucy’s prayer journal became a bright ray of hope during the family’s darkest days.
“She got this book about a month before she died,” Morgan said. “It was my wife’s idea. My wife is a journalist, and she said, ‘Hey, you can use this to write something, write to God if you want.’ She even wrote some spelling words in it.”
The photos in Lucy’s diary reflected the 6-year-old’s thoughts, including writings like “God is amazing” and “He created everything, and he died on the cross for our sins.”
Lucy wrote in her prayer journal, “I love Jesus with all my heart.” (via Jesse Morgan, New Creation Living blog)
“She’s a child and part of our concern is that we want our children to know God,” he said. “It wasn’t a fear-based thing or a demand or a pressure on them. We want to essentially show our children the love of Christ so that they see God’s love reflected in us, imperfectly, and want more of that and want to follow Him.”
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Morgan said seeing Lucy’s childlike faith was “one of the most beautiful gifts.”
I believe he had faith as small as a mustard seed.
“I believe they had faith the size of a mustard seed,” he said. “And that Jesus calls children to himself and that, while their understanding as children was limited, it was still one of the most beautiful gifts for them to open up and see what he wrote, what he painted.”
Lucy was transported via medical helicopter to a nearby pediatric hospital and later transferred to a hospital in Portland, Maine. (via Jesse Morgan, New Creation Living blog)
Morgan, who pastors Green Pond Bible Chapel in Rockaway, New Jersey, makes it a priority to share the gospel of salvation with his four children.
“We have explained the gospel to our kids every day,” Morgan said. “This wasn’t a one-time event.”
“We look at this as an ongoing conversation that happens with our kids all the time, but the doubts remain,” he said. “Did I say the right thing? Did I do the right thing?”
Morgan said he and his wife had trouble understanding whether they had preached the Gospel to their 6-year-old daughter before her death.
Morgan said he asked himself, “Was I good enough as a father and a mother to make it clear that Jesus died for you, loved you, we need His love, we need His death and resurrection.”
Lucy died from her injuries four days later, the family said. (via Jesse Morgan, New Creation Living blog)
Lucy’s father said he took to his blog, New Creation Living, as a “simple cry for help”.
“The first post was just a plea for help from people I knew would pray for us, and it was a way for me to release the trauma that I was holding in my body,” she said. “I found it to be a helpful process for me to process my grief, confusion, and anger.”
“I think God is pleased to use it, and it’s very fulfilling for me,” he said. “I still try to be myself and stay authentic.”
Morgan said people keep telling her they are amazed at her family’s faith during her young daughter’s heartbreaking death, but she explained it wasn’t that simple.
“We didn’t want to stay any longer. A big part of us wanted to work with God,” he said. “And we couldn’t do that. It just couldn’t happen.”
Lucy and her mother Bethany and sister. Jesse Morgan said he and his wife were reading and relaxing when the badminton accident happened. (via Jesse Morgan, New Creation Living blog)
Morgan said she believes God placed circumstances in her family’s lives to prepare them for Lucy’s death.
“I think God has put all of these things into our lives so that we can be prepared for this,” he said. “I don’t even know what any of this means in God’s plan, and I don’t want to try to figure it out and explain it by doing divine math.”
“It’s not because of my strength,” he said.
Morgan said that two days before Lucy’s unexpected death, the family sang “He Will Hold Me Fast” by Christian singers Keith and Kristyn Getty and Selah.
“It can be summed up in one of the first lines, “When I fear my faith will fail, Christ will hold me fast,” Morgan recalled. “I’ve never really felt like that, and I felt the prayers of millions of people, thousands of people. I don’t know how many people praying and helping us. And that was it.”
Lucy’s father said her prayer journal also contained pictures of family and the Bible. (via Jesse Morgan, New Creation Living blog)
Morgan said he wants people to see the “miracle” amid his family’s suffering.
Only Christ is sustaining us.
“Only Christ is sustaining us,” he said. “I don’t want people to be surprised by this tragedy, I want people to see a miracle. God didn’t bring her back by a miracle, but God did a miracle,” he said. “And that’s what I want people to see, that we still have faith in Him in our hearts.”
Lucy’s brothers stand by her while she’s in the pediatric intensive care unit. (via Jesse Morgan, New Creation Living blog)
Lucy died of a head injury a strange accident The badminton racket incident occurred on the final day of his family vacation in Maine.
Lucy was injured unexpectedly when the shaft of a racket her 10-year-old brother was using broke and struck her in the head.
“A freak accident occurred when the racket broke during the downswing, and the sharp piece penetrated Lucy’s head while she was sitting on the sideline, causing serious injury,” Morgan explained in a series of blog posts on her blog. new creation life“She was still breathing but was unresponsive while I was holding her and Bethany was calling out to God.”
Lucy was rushed to a local hospital before being taken to hospital in Portland, Maine,
Lucy is vacationing in Maine with her three siblings. (via Jesse Morgan, New Creation Living blog)
Lucy died four days after the accident.
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“After extensive vital signs testing and repeated tests to be certain, brain death was declared at 1:32 a.m. on June 5, and around 4 a.m. his heart stopped beating,” Jesse wrote.
“Lucy was with Jesus,” he said.
