Anytime you submit to a process you can feel robotic and like you are going through the motions. Before our family this week was planning for a funeral of someone way too young to die. At age thirty life is about to get really enjoyable. You have out lasted your awkward teens, and then those early twenty something years where you are growing into a full fledged adult.
So once the arrangements are made it is a day or two of visitors, meals together and then the actual service. Family has started arriving and time spent remembering a life is underway.
In this particular situation it is even harder because the deceased had a daughter who is the adopted daughter I am now raising with my husband Ken. Nicole knows that Candice was her biological mother and fully accepted the decision of officials who removed her at birth. Having been drug addicted at birth, Nicole suffered from being a month premature and only weighing 4lbs. 4oz.
The consequences of a life lived in sin can be very difficult. Because we who have accepted Christ as our savior we have the hope and peace that Jesus died for our sins. He died for them in total. He washes us with his blood, cleanses and give us a hope, salvation, beauty. Candice is now in the arms of Jesus and at her eternal home awaiting all of us when we reach our eternal destination.
Lord, please walk with those in the grieving process and grant them peace. Amen
The mountain is silent another day in respect and honor of life and the passing of one from this life to the next. Hold tight to her hand until we are there to once again be in fellowship.
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