Dear LORD, these past days have seen You take some starwarts of faith home to be with You. I confess I was not ready to say goodbye to James Dobson and my great longtime friend, Sue.
I know I don't have your vantage point, but for me it was just too soon.
Thank You so much for the time You left them here with us and for all they did to bless me.
I pray earnestly today for comfort and hope and blessing for their families as we grieve the loss of contact here...but Praise The LORD, these days are not the last we shall see of our brother and sister in Christ.
Help me to live wisely and well so that when it is my time to return to You, I can hear 'Well done.'
Thank You for how James and Sue have blessed my life. I pray blessings on their families in Jesus' matchless name. Amen
Verse for Today: "But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that lwe who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore encourage one another with these words." (I Thessalonians 4:13-18)
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