Contagious!!

My favorite memories of JD are when Jeremy lived with us those two summers, and the boys would all come over and just be boys! I have absolutely NEVER before or since seen anybody have as much fun in a swimming pool playing with a little basketball and poolside goal than JD, Jeremy, Steven Anderson, and Matt Ervin!! They'd stay out there for HOURS, "hooping" (pun intended) and hollering, and splashing and laughing! The laughing was the fun part! They'd just crack themselves up about something silly they'd do or say, and just start laughing until they hurt! We'd hear them all the way inside the kitchen and start laughing ourselves, like listening to one of those laugh boxes! Contagious!!

But then, he had his serious side... when he talked with you, he gave you his undivided attention. He loved with his whole heart! He never seemed to do anything half-heartedly, but did it because he had a deep passion for whatever it was he was doing at the time....whether it was spending a few moments talking with a Student Leader at church, talking with a younger member of the youth group, being a part of the Devore Family,....or simply splashing around a swimming pool with his best friends....Jonathan Devore was quite frankly very contagious, like his laughter! Oh , that there were more contagious Christians so passionate as JD! I can't wait to see him again, and see if I'm right about him splashing Jesus, or surfing on the crystal sea!! :)

-Peggy Brown