Family Finds 6-Year-Old Daughter’s Prayer Journal After Her Sudden Death, Revealing Powerful Faith

A child’s notebook can look ordinary until the words inside become something a grieving family never knew they would desperately need.

For the family of 6-year-old Lucy Morgan, a small prayer journal discovered after her sudden death became just that: an unexpected window into their daughter’s faith and a powerful reminder of where she is today.

More than two years after Lucy died following a horrific badminton accident, her family is now suing Franklin Sports, the manufacturer of the racket involved. Yet as the tragedy returns to the headlines, so does the remarkable testimony Lucy left behind.

According to Fox News, Lucy was vacationing with her parents and siblings in Limerick, Maine, in June 2024 when the aluminum shaft of a badminton racket her 10-year-old brother was using separated from its wooden handle. Maine State Police said the shaft struck Lucy in the head and pierced her skull.

She died from her injuries four days later, on June 5.

But approximately one month before Lucy’s death, something far more eternal had been unfolding.

Her father, Jesse Morgan, a pastor at Green Pond Bible Chapel in Rockaway, New Jersey, previously told Fox News Digital that Lucy had begun asking serious questions about God. Four weeks before the accident, she asked her mother, Bethany, how she could be saved and be with Him.

After her mother explained the gospel and offered to pray alongside her, Lucy wanted to pray on her own. She went to her room, asked God for forgiveness and expressed her belief in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Then, following Lucy’s death, another piece of the story surfaced.

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A friend returned Lucy’s backpack to the Morgan family. Tucked inside was a prayer journal Lucy had received about a month before she died.

Its pages revealed what had been stirring in the little girl’s heart.

Fox News reported that Lucy filled the journal with drawings, hearts, Bible-themed messages and declarations about God. Among them were simple words about loving Jesus and recognizing Him as the One who created everything and died for humanity’s sins.

For parents wrestling with the unimaginable loss of their daughter, those childlike pages carried tremendous weight.

Jesse told Fox News Digital that discovering what Lucy had written and drawn was “one of the most beautiful gifts” the family received. He said he had no doubt that Lucy “loved Christ and loved God.”

“I believe that she had the faith of a mustard seed,” he said.

That faith is once again part of Lucy’s story as her family pursues a wrongful-death and product-liability lawsuit against Franklin Sports.

According to Fox News, the lawsuit alleges the racket was defective and unreasonably dangerous, claiming its metal shaft and wooden handle were inadequately secured and that the company failed to sufficiently warn consumers about the potential danger.

Franklin Sports expressed its “deepest sympathies” to the Morgan family and said it takes product safety seriously, while declining to address the lawsuit’s specific allegations because litigation is ongoing.

A court will ultimately weigh those allegations.

But there is another part of Lucy’s story no courtroom can determine.

Before tragedy struck, a 6-year-old girl was thinking about Jesus, writing about God and asking how she could be with Him.

And when her family later opened that little notebook, they discovered something precious had been happening in Lucy’s heart all along.

As Jesse wrote after his daughter’s death: “Lucy was with Jesus.”

Abby Trivett is a writer and editor for Charisma Media and has a passion for sharing the gospel through the written word. She holds two degrees from Regent University, a B.A. in Communication with a concentration in Journalism and a Master of Arts in Journalism. She is the author of the newly released book, The Power of Suddenly: Discover How God Can Change Everything in a Moment. For interviews and media inquiries, please contact media@.