When you are a Christian parent, you believe your job is to raise godly children to become living examples of Jesus in a lost world. However, for Maggie Scott, the sudden death of her eldest son Phillip influenced her to realize people are mainly God's vessels to be used for His purposes. Through the preciousness of life, God teaches us to number our days and treat others, especially our children, as "borrowed items" given to us for a season. Her new, nonfiction book, Only on Loan: a reminder...not yours for keeps, relates an understanding that people are "on loan" to us for a specific time and, just as with borrowed items, we are responsible to care for them and develop them to be instruments for God. Maggie also describes the grief she endured over her son's passing, but saw he belonged to God all along; God's instrument for a season.