Mandy

Peas in a pod

We have been walking this week with our dear brother James through the death of his best friend. They were to be engaged this weekend, but God had another plan. The last few days have been filled with amazing times of pain softened with gentle memories and sweet stories. We have never been a part of grief this raw, sadness this deep; nor have we been more amazed at the grace of God in the lives of those who hope in the resurrection.

James prayed tonight thanking the Father for the true bridegroom who had welcomed her into His eternal rest. We forget how thin the veil is between the temporal and the eternal. May we all be ready to step across that divide into the arms of our savior. Until then, may we be ready to comfort those who have been left behind to await that day.

From II Corinthians 5

1 For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven, 3 if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked. 4 For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life.