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April 13, 2025 18 mins

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Death has a way of clarifying what truly matters. After the passing of Darcie's 95-year-old grandmother, we're sharing revelations about the profound difference between inheritance and legacy.

When people who knew Grandma Floy from churches she and Grandpa pastored 20+ years ago showed up at her funeral, it highlighted something remarkable. Financial inheritance eventually runs out, but spiritual legacy endures for generations. The joy and faith she consistently demonstrated—regardless of circumstances—created ripples we're still feeling today.

While cleaning out Grandma's house, we discovered treasures far more valuable than any material possessions: sermon tapes from Grandpa's ministry, prayer journals filled with names of strangers Grandma had befriended and prayed for, and Bible notes revealing spiritual insights. These artifacts connected us to our spiritual heritage in ways that strengthened our own faith journey and understanding of the gifts we've received.

The beauty of legacy is that each of us gets to choose what we leave behind, regardless of what was passed to us. Jesus came specifically to transform family legacies. Through our daily decisions—how we handle struggles, celebrate victories, and demonstrate faith—we're creating the story our children and grandchildren will remember. When they face their own challenges, will they remember how we trusted God through difficult seasons?

What legacy will your life create when you're gone? Will your great-grandchildren know you prayed? Will they have stories of God's faithfulness passed down through generations? Share your thoughts with us on the Restored Podcast Facebook page or email therestoredcast@gmail.com—we'd love to hear how you're building your spiritual legacy.

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Speaker 1 (00:19):
you are listening to the restored podcast with frank
and darcy montgomery.
Restored Podcast with Frank andDarcy Montgomery.
Welcome back to the RestoredPodcast.
My name is Frank and I am withmy beautiful wife, Darcy.
Hello, We've had a little bitof delay getting this episode
out, but we've been goingthrough a little bit of a

(00:39):
situation at home, Beginning acouple weeks ago Darcy's grandma
we were getting Grandma Floydready to move into an assisted
living facility, packing up herhouse that she had lived in for
30 plus years.
During that process of gettingher ready to move, she had a

(01:13):
major stroke and later passedaway because of that stroke.
So we had her funeral yesterdayand it wasn't sad.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
No, it was beautiful.
Honestly, it was beautiful andkind of, you know, joyful.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Well, she had lived on the earth for 95 years.
Right During that 95 years, herand Grandpa had pastored
churches.
For over 40 years they hadpastored churches in three
different states.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Right and people were still commenting on posts of
her obituary from Utah andColorado.
That knew them back then.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
Well, even at her funeral yesterday, I was
surprised that there wereprobably at least 10 people and
it's been 20 plus years sincethey've pastored a church,
absolutely but at the lastchurch that they pastored here
in town, there were 10 people ather funeral that attended

(02:21):
Gospel Temple Right, and to methat spoke a lot, being just the
impact that her and grandpamade in those lives for them, 10
years later, to come to afuneral yeah, 20 years later, 10
years after grandpa passed away, and it just it spoke a lot to

(02:44):
me.
But she lived her life on earthfull, her and grandpa and they
made a big impact she understoodthe assignment.
Yeah, she understood theassignment.
She understood what christianswere on earth for, and that was
to love one another and tospread the love of Jesus.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
And reach the lost.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
And reach the lost.
And that's exactly what she did.
And you know, just thinkingabout and I never really thought
about this until yesterday atthe funeral, until somebody
brought it up, but it's true,brought it up, but it's true I
never saw grandma not smilingand not full of joy.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
Right.
She always had a smile and aword of encouragement is what I
remember.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
She could have been going through it, but you would
never know, because she wasjoyful and she had a smile and
whatever she was going through,she took it to the Lord.
She took it to the Lord and shegave it to him, and it wasn't
going to affect how she felt,how she walked, how she acted.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
Nothing was going to steal her joy.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
And that speaks a lot .
And that speaks a lot.
And that really hit meyesterday in the funeral when
thinking about that and Istarted trying to think.
And I mean I spent quite a bitof time over at their house
whenever you and I first gottogether and Grandpa still had
his tax business and I would gowork for him and help him.

(04:23):
So I mean I spent quite a bitof time over there and I I never
, I never would see her, youknow, not be smiling, not be
full of joy, and so during thisprocess and it got me to
thinking and I know you as wellabout what we leave behind to

(04:48):
our children, to our futuregenerations.
Whenever we leave this world, somany times and I do it myself
we think about the financialaspect of it, we think about the
inheritance.
What inheritance am I gettingfrom my parents?
What are you going to leave mebehind?

(05:09):
And that's well and good.
The Bible says that a wise manwill leave an inheritance to his
children and his children'schildren, and I want to be a
wise man one day and I'm workingtowards that.
But more so than any financialgift that we can leave our
children, more so than anythingabout that, is legacy.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
Right.
And here's a definition oflegacy.
Legacy refers to the spiritual,moral and cultural inheritance
passed down from one generationto another.
It encompasses the teachings,values and faith that an
individual leaves behindinfluencing future generations.
Legacy is not limited tomaterial possessions, but

(05:56):
includes definition.
Legacy is far more importantthan any inheritance.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
Now, if you've generated generational type
wealth to where you can leavethat wealth to your kids and
they can't spend it all andthey'll leave it to their,
that's well and great, but evenmore so than that is that legacy
of faith that we can leave toour children and our children's

(06:36):
children and our children'schildren's children, and so on.
You can just keep going,whereas the money might run out,
but that legacy of faith willnever run out, and the Bible
teaches us that if you train upyour child in the way of the
Lord, they will not depart fromit, and so teaching that legacy

(06:59):
and raising our children to loveGod and to love people is more
important than any inheritancethat we can leave behind.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
Absolutely.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
And I'm thankful for the legacy that my parents left
behind for me.
They taught me hard work, theytaught me that God can and will
do anything, that nothing is toobig for God, and they taught me
that if you are faithful to God, God will be faithful to you

(07:34):
Right.
And I'm just so thankful forthat legacy because that legacy
has picked me up and carried meat times and I'm thankful that
you come from that same legacy.
I mean, we talked about GrandmaFloyd and Grandpa how they
pastored churches for 40 plusyears.
You have that lineage of yourgrandpa being an ordained pastor

(08:00):
and I think something that'sreally cool when we were
cleaning out our house, youcoming across all those audio
cassette tapes of Grandpa'spreaching and different
evangelists and missionariesthat would come to his church
and speak, and for you to havethose tapes.
Now you knew Grandpa was apastor.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
Right.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
You had even went to his church.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
I've been baptized by him.
I was baptized by him anddedicated by him.
But now to go back and to beable to listen to those sermons,
listen to what God?
Now I make a difference that Iunderstand them Right Because
you listened to him.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
I mean, you went to his church growing up but at
that age you weren't reallypaying attention and you
couldn't really comprehend whatwas being taught.
But now to go back and for youto be able to listen to your
grandpa teach and preach- Notonly that, I have his Bible and
his sermon notes and all of thatis treasured.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
I mean, people in the family wanted to get rid of all
that and throw it away and thatbroke my heart because it's
treasure and it is invaluableinformation and stuff in that

(09:28):
notes that are in those Bibles,to where God was revealing
things to Grandpa whenever hewas studying and even just in
his quiet time.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
But I mean also back when your mammy passed away a
few years ago, which she's yourother grandmother.
When she passed away, you gotsome of her old prayer journals.
Grandmother, when she passedaway, you got some of her old
prayer journals and you know, wewe would often poke fun of, and

(09:52):
it just amused us made light ofthe fact that wherever she
would go, she would make friends.
Whether it was the uh personchecking her out at the grocery
store, or was her waiter orwaitress at the restaurant, she
would become best friends withthem.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
She would.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
But then later, after she passed away and you got
those prayer journals, you yousaw a little bit more of
yourself, and I've alwayscompared you to Mammy.
Your physical attributes andsome of your mannerisms are just

(10:39):
like her.
But through that you foundanother part waiters, and those
waitresses and those people atthe grocery store at the gas
station that she was makingfriends with.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
They would open up to her.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
And they might be going through a hard season in
their life and they would sharethat with her.
Well then she would go home andshe would take it to God and it
would be in those prayerjournals.
And just to see when thatrealization, when it sunk in
with you because you possess alot of those same spiritual
gifts of discernment, ofprophetic nature and an assessor

(11:21):
and people tend to come to youthe same way they did Mammy and
just when that realization, whenI saw that hit you, that Mammy
was that a way too, becauseyou've often struggled with
those gifts because it is aheavy burden to bear.
But that realization that cameto you whenever you realized

(11:44):
that Mammy was the same way, Ithink it just strengthened that
within you.
And that's what legacy does.
And when you come from a longline of legacy of a strong
Christian faith, it's harder tobreak away from that faith Right
, christian faith.
It's harder to break away fromthat faith.

(12:05):
But also it's everybody'sdecision.
I can choose today the legacythat I want to leave behind for
Hayden.
I can choose today if it'sgoing to be a legacy of faith or
if it's going to be a legacy ofaddiction or a legacy of
negativity or a legacy ofdivorce.

(12:26):
Whatever that might be, we havethe power to choose what legacy
we leave behind.

Speaker 2 (12:34):
And that includes, you know, if you're left a
legacy that has any of thosethings, you don't have to stay
in that.

Speaker 1 (12:42):
Right.
Jesus came and died on thecross to change family legacies.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
Right.

Speaker 1 (12:53):
And I think it's just so important.
We strive so much for thefinancial side and the physical
side whenever we think aboutwhat we're going to leave behind
to our loved ones after we'regone.
And the legacy side of that isjust so important because it can
impact generations that youwill never meet.

(13:18):
But by you instilling that andleaving a legacy of Right loving
me, when you leave behind thatlegacy of faith, it is so much

(13:46):
more powerful and so much moreI'm looking for the word it'll
mean more to your lineage thanany dollar amount would mean to
them.
And I just this is kind of ashort episode today, but I just

(14:09):
wanted to talk about that legacyand encourage others and I know
that I've been encouraged to bemore diligent and to focus more
on the legacy that I'm leavingbehind to our future generations
and just know that whateveryou're going through today, god

(14:30):
will see you through, and howyou handle that today is
building your legacy.
I can't remember who said itBuilding your legacy.

(15:05):
I can't remember who said it.
I think it might have been GaryVaynerchuk that quoted it.
Something along the lines ofeach day is a new day to create
your legacy, yep, or a roughseason.
They can look back and remember.
Mom and Dad did this and Godtook care of them.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
And that's the thing you have to leave that example.
Sharing your testimony withyour kids is very important.
When God does something, youneed to share that and show that
, especially to your kids, andlet them see that to build their
faith 100%.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
I mean the Bible tells us to you know, raise our
children and teach them theteachings of Christ.

Speaker 2 (15:55):
And praying with your kids is so important.
You know I would pray overHayden all the time.
You would pray over Hayden allthe time you would pray over him
.
You and I have shared ourstruggles.
I mean, he's seen them, butsome of them and he's seen
change.
He'll say Dad's better, Mom,you're doing better, You're on

(16:17):
fire for God.

Speaker 1 (16:19):
And it's that legacy there that's more important than
anything financially that wecould leave him.
And I just again it's a realquick episode today, but we just
wanted to get on and share thatabout legacy and what's been on
our hearts and just to striveharder each day to leave a

(16:40):
legacy of faith to where there'sno doubt in our future
generations of our bloodline,that Frank and Darcy, whatever
they call us, I have a feelingI'll be called Pops.

Speaker 2 (16:52):
You're already called that.

Speaker 1 (16:53):
Because that's what Hayden calls me now, but Pops
and Granny Darcy.

Speaker 2 (16:59):
No, thank you.

Speaker 1 (17:01):
Whatever you're called, but I hope that they can
look back and you know, ourgreat-grandchildren or our
grandchildren will look back andsay I know, Granny Darcy.

Speaker 2 (17:11):
Would you stop calling me that.

Speaker 1 (17:14):
Prayed like this and I know that God took care of
them and that, to me, is fargreater, yeah, and that to me is
far greater, far more importantthan any financial inheritance
we can leave behind our kids.
And so this has been theRestored Podcast.
If you have any questions oryou want to share your testimony

(17:35):
with us, you can find us at theRestored Podcast Facebook page
or you can email us attherestoredcast at gmailcom.
We look forward to hearing fromyou and until next time, my
name is Frank.
For my beautiful wife, darcy,this has been the Restored
Podcast, thank you.
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