Friday, June 21, 2019
Dear Wanda, Mike and Family: I wanted to express my heartfelt condolences to your family in your time of loss. For those of us who grieve there is no detour around it or no shortcut through it. However, 2Corinthians 4:7 says that God can give us "... power beyond what is normal..." to go from one day to the next. This does not mean that we no longer cry or that we forget, it means we recover. We recover because of our hope. Jesus Christ talked about our hope and John 5:28, 29 which says: "... all those in the memorial tombs (the grave) will hear his (Jesus) voice and come out...". Jesus was referring to the resurrection, a bringing back to life, in the flesh, here on Earth! That is our amazing hope! To see and be with our loved ones again, right here on Earth! The Holy Bible likens our hope to an 'anchor for souls' (Hebrews 6:19). Just like an anchor stabilizes a ship, Our hope stabilizes us and keeps us from drowning and overwhelming sadness. One way that God comforts us today is by moving people who care about us to give us words of encouragement that we need to hear. May "the God of all comfort" be with you and yours now, during this time of sorrow (2 Corinthians 1:3, 4)..
