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| By Betsy O'Neil Credit: betsyoneilfineart.com |
No, in all these things we are more
than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor
life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers,
nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to
separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
It is difficult to talk about God's love having been to the funeral of a friends' 19 year old son who took his life on Christmas Eve.
An agonising 'Why?' ripped out across the assembled people. Is 'God loves you' consoling? Does God understand the 'dagger in the heart' experience of this type of bereavement?
The service was delayed by 30 minutes because the parents were too distraught to enter the church. The mother had to be carried in by two friends.
It was a wonderful experience. No one wanted to be there, but no one could do anything other than be there. The pain and question had to be brought out into the open and laid out before the people, and before God.
God's love is complete. It's not just for happy carefree days, when nothing is going wrong. It's also for these excruciating bleeding days.
PRAYER: I ask you to help my friends carry the question 'why?' with grace and peace.
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