Virginia Ann Wirth

Virginia Ann Wirth, 60 of Grand Prairie TX, passed away on December 12, 2015. She was born in El Paso TX on August 19, 1955. Virginia graduated from Burges High School in El Paso, and then attended University of Texas at El Paso for a year, followed by a brief time in the marketplace working for the company that her father RIP Russell had co-founded. Later she elected to move to Arlington, TX to pursue a Fine Arts Degree from the University of Texas in Arlington, with a minor in English, where she graduated, successfully completing that degree in 1986. She then traveled with a company called Traveling Light before that group ended some years later. It was at that time she began to work temp jobs for a while where she functioned as an auditor at various companies throughout Dallas/Fort Worth with the knowledge that she had acquired growing up with her parents . She then went to work for Shady Grove Church in the worship and fine arts department where she remained for a few years until being introduced to a drama class as a part-time teacher at Shady Grove Christian Academy. She worked in both capacities before moving into a full time position as a Teacher where she remained until accepting the position of high school principal at the newly founded Stonegate Christian Academy. She later became Administrator of the upper school and later the Head School Master until her passing.

Remembering our Virginia...

Virginia was...Light.! She was not a harsh blinding light, but she was this warm, radiant glow that she never hid from anyone.

She was never ashamed to share her great love affair with her Savior with those God sent across her path. Many times she

shared with me her personal story of salvation....and oh, how her eyes danced, sparkled, and misted with abundant gratefulness,

thanks, and sincerity at the telling of her story to me. She drew me, and countless others, to her because of the light of her

testimony. The light of Jesus passed through all that she set her hands to do. She never entered a task without acknowledging

the One who had set the task before her...In all of her ways she allowed His light to shine through her. From the fabulous to the

seemingly mundane she made it clear that everything she did was to Him and through Him. What a great bearer of light, what a

magnificent beacon to bear testimony to the One that had made her and called her to live a life filled with the Glory of God!

And the light that she shared is never extinguished...there is no ending to its magnificent glow...for it now lives on in the lives

of the people she passionately led, mentored, taught, befriended, and loved.

Matthew 5:14-16

14 “You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a

bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. 16 In the same way, let your light shine before

others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.

Virginia was...Laughter! Anyone that knew Virginia knew of her wonderful laugh! She filled rooms with Joy just from her

laughter alone! This was a laugh that came from a fully alive and contented heart. Many times when I was feeling despair in

my own life she would listen with an open heart as I poured out my troubles to her....and in the end...as if by some divine

gifting...we would end up smiling and laughing (often uncontrollably). God gave her the unique ability to truly be able to

rejoice in all circumstances, and in turn she gave others the ability to share in that same rejoicing when they were in her

presence. Healing was in her laughter, and it brought many to freedom, bound up the broken hearted, repaired breaches,

mended fences, soothed wounds, and released potential...to know her was to experience the heavenly gift of divine laughter.

Psalm 126:2-3

2 Our mouths were filled with laughter,

our tongues with songs of joy.

Then it was said among the nations,

“The Lord has done great things for them.”

3 The Lord has done great things for us,

and we are filled with joy.

Virginia was a...Gift Giver! I have countless mementos in my possession today of gifts Virginia has given me over the years.

They remind me that Her desire was always to give...whether it was in big or small ways her heart was always overflowing and

seeking out ways to deposit in others gifts and treasures. God put many gifts inside of Virginia and she gladly shared those gifts

with anyone that would crack the door even the slightest to receive them. Her gifts were her currency on this earth and she

invested them well and without hesitation...into each moment of friendship, teaching, correction, counseling, administrating,

serving, she lovingly put a piece of herself into every ounce of currency she deposited into others. There was never a

withholding in giving away her gifts...her deposits were generous and without regret. While she was tethered here...she never

buried her gifts in the ground or kept them for herself....she gave, and she gave...depositing all she had in others for their

benefit and for His Glory. How God must smile at her continually in pleasure knowing she invested all He gave her so wisely

and so well.

Matthew 19

19 “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.

20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in

and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Virginia was...Love! Her capacity to love...how could it be measured?! To say that she Loved Big cannot even come near to

expressing how much love she poured out to others on a daily basis. I always have marveled at the amount of love this one

woman could give to so many people in so many diverse situations. And what would normally exhaust ordinary humans

seemed to only energize her to continue to love all the more! I witnessed on countless occasions her ability and willingness to

love without judgment or bias...even if she was correcting someone the main emphasis behind the correction was always love!

To comprehend her love you had to know its true source...Jesus. Many times in conversation she had shared with me that it was

only through her love relationship with Christ, and her understanding of how completely she had been forgiven that she was

able to love with such abandon! She couldn't fathom not giving her love away to her husband, to her family, to her friends, and

to her students because she understood her love was not a thing to be hoarded, but a gift to be given to others willingly and

sacrificially...just as it had been given to her! If you were loved by Virginia in this lifetime count yourself blessed...for you were

loved deeply and fully. If you were loved by Virginia in this lifetime...then honor her by following her example to love well

from the heart...without hesitation.

To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Miserable

This is our Virginia..Light, Laughter, Gift Giver, Love! Forever living in our hearts...and daily in our our memories of a life

lived well for the Glory of God!

Proverbs 31:10-12

10 Who can find a Virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.

11 The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.

12 She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.

Psalm 13:5-6

5 But I trust in your unfailing love;

my heart rejoices in your salvation.

6 I will sing the Lord’s praise,

for he has been good to me.

1 Corinthians 13:13

13 And now these three Remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

John 15:13

13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.

John 1:4-5

4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not

overcome it.

1 Corinthians 13:12

12 Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All

that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.

Psalm 89:1

89 I will sing of the mercies of the Lord for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.

II Tim. 4:7

I have fought the kind of fight that is good. I have reached the mark on the road that God wanted me to reach. And I have kept

on believing in him.