Lynley's legacy

Lynley Smith was a passionate New Zealand Christian author who sadly passed away from Leukaemia in October 2018.

She lived a full and victorious life with many causes that she supported with great gusto. Only reaching her final calling in life as an author after retiring from journalism, Lynley embarked on a whirlwind few years of traveling, writing, adventuring and publishing 5 books covering a range of fiction, nonfiction and children’s fiction books. These books reflect her heart and her spirit and they are her ongoing legacy for future generations. She was passionate about children knowing the love and grace of God, as this was something that she herself had known early in life, but it was not fostered and floundered, and it was many, many years before she returned to the faith of her childhood.

Lynley Smith was a passionate New Zealand Christian author who sadly passed away from Leukaemia in October 2018. She lived a full and victorious life with many causes that she supported with great gusto. Only reaching her final calling in life as an author after retiring from journalism, Lynley embarked on a whirlwind few years of traveling, writing, adventuring and publishing 5 books covering a range of fiction, nonfiction and children’s fiction books. These books reflect her heart and her spirit and they are her ongoing legacy for future generations. She was passionate about children knowing the love and grace of God, as this was something that she herself had known early in life, but it was not fostered and floundered, and it was many, many years before she returned to the faith of her childhood.

Lynley was also cognisant of the political machinations in Europe and the lessons that have not been learnt from the past. Spreading the message of the underlying ideologies leading up to WWII was something that she felt an urgency about. If she had lived to witness the Christchurch mosque attack, she would not have been surprised in the slightest, and would have seen this as a warning for the years to come.

Lynley’s dedication to her sponsor child in Africa meant that she travelled there to really witness the environment in which this child had grown up, now an adult. And finally, she was never one to let shortage of finances prevent her from following where she felt led by God, and this led her to many places throughout the world and as predicted, into many strange and odd situations that standard “touristing” would probably miss.

This website is the opportunity to continue Lynley’s legacy as she would have wanted, and to keep the message spreading about the goodness of God’s grace but also the difficult days that the world looks likely to be entering into. Although she was taken far too young by an awful disease, she remained philosophical right to the end. She never wanted to be seen as a victim, but always chose to attribute her fate into the hands of God. As she said in her blog “Funnily enough, the ultimate outcome is the same – we all die sooner or later. If my death is to be sooner, what does that really matter if I do it BETTER?”

Lynley is survived by 4 daughters and 14 grandchildren, all of whom seem to have inherited her determined, adventurous love of life…