One of the hardest parts is going back home after funerals and everything is completely changed. You expect the whole world to stop and mourn with you and you don’t quite understand why everyone else is going on around you, happy, as if nothing had ever happened. I remember that feeling all too well. I was intimately acquainted with it. It is happening to some of my dearest friends now. People I have known for years.
The Funeral today was so very beautiful. It was centered on Romans 8:38-39
"For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
When Jesus died on the cross He paid the price for all of it. I am so very thankful for that. We have no need of 'Last rites' for God has forgiven us our future sin.
"But since we are of the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation." 1 Thessalonians 5:8
"But Christ was faithful as a Son over His house-- whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the boast of our hope firm until the end." Hebrews 3:6
"Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful;"
Hebrews 10:23
The God we serve is so great. (How does that old song go? ‘My God is so great, so strong and so mighty; there is nothing my God cannot do.’) He is powerful enough to heal our broken hearts. We have to remind ourselves every day that He wants good for us and He is bringing about further sanctification in our lives. Even if the events that get us there are most painful and terrible.
HollyDee
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