The first two weeks in December were difficult as a friend and cousin passed into eternity.We rejoiced with heavy hearts, if such an irony could be possible.
Many lives were touched and changed.
Many began to consider heaven with a new longing and a new joy.
It is incredible seeing a family and a community rally together to support one another. It is faith in action as people "carry each other's burdens" (Gal 6:2) and encourage one other.
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 knows me completely. - 1 Cor 13:12
"Don't let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in me. There is more than enough room in my Father's home. If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am." John 14:1-3
The Lord is close to the broken hearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. - Psalm 34:18
"My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts," says the LORD. "And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine." - Isaiah 55:8
So be truly glad. There is wonderful joy ahead, even though you have to endure many trials for a little while. - 1 Peter 1:6
So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary but what is unseen is eternal. - 2 Cor 4:18
"No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him" - 1 Cor 2:9b
It is incredible seeing a family and a community rally together to support one another. It is faith in action as people "carry each other's burdens" (Gal 6:2) and encourage one other. Yet, she was too young, too vibrant, too full of faith. So we ask, Why, God? Why not a miracle to display your magnificence and wonder to the world? Why her? What about her husband and her two little ones? What about all those who love her who prayed for a miracle? Is our faith lacking?
We do not understand God's ways, but we trust Him and we look forward to the hope of heaven! He is faithful whether or not we know answers in this life.
He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God's work from beginning to end. - Ecc 3:11b
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 knows me completely. - 1 Cor 13:12
"Don't let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in me. There is more than enough room in my Father's home. If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am." John 14:1-3
The Lord is close to the broken hearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. - Psalm 34:18
"My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts," says the LORD. "And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine." - Isaiah 55:8
So be truly glad. There is wonderful joy ahead, even though you have to endure many trials for a little while. - 1 Peter 1:6
So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary but what is unseen is eternal. - 2 Cor 4:18
"No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him" - 1 Cor 2:9b"If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world." - C.S. Lewis
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