A Poem: Hope, Dread, and the Observer Two men.Their final week. Departing. Leaving. Dying.Yet, starting anew.Traveling. Moving on. The next life. Eternal life.Transcending. Tombstone: Born date – Died date.The dash in between. Life. Each life.What did they do?Human life. Seemingly the destination, but merely the transition.What did they learn?Did they have an effect?What lies ahead? […]
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Hope in the Face of Death: About a month before my husband, Kenny died from colon cancer, we suspected the cancer had spread to his brain. He imagined all sorts of things and was disoriented at times. I left him home alone one Saturday while I went to work. I got a phone call from
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I was greatly moved by this passage: Then David and the people who were with him raised their voices and wept until they had no more strength to weep…. But David strengthened himself in the Lord his God… And David inquired of the Lord…1 Samuel 30:4 & 6b & 8a This is how we should
We’re reading this book Holiness by J.C. Ryle in a life group that I’m in and last night I came across this passage: “Some of us know by bitter experience what a long and weary time it is between the death of those we love and the hour when we bury them out of our
In the Gospel of John, chapter 11, Jesus goes to the home of Mary and Martha after Lazurus died. Three times, John mentions those who came to mourn with the sisters: v. 19 …many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them concerning their brother. v. 31 When the Jews who
I had a surprising number of conversations yesterday about death, grieving, and mourning. Maybe it isn’t really surprising considering how many of our loved ones have passed away since the pandemic began. We try to make sense of it, but it’s just so overwhelming. As Christians, we’re aware of 1 Thessalonians 4:13 (ESV): But we
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