This past week marks the passing of my mother, along with my wife and I celebrating our 40th anniversary, so I will include some other passages too:
From my wife:
Today's bible verse is: "Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts" (Colossians 3:16, NIV).
My reflection:
We have been listening to Psalms as we go to sleep all week, actually since just before Mom passed. this has been such a blessing to us. Some psalms are rejoicing, some are in humility, some are in recognition of failure to follow the Lord, and all of them end up praising and acknowledging our God.
From my professor:
"Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever." - 1 Chronicles 16:34
My reflection:
Amen, Professor! "Forever" takes on that whole other dimension when thinking about the eternity my mother just entered. His love does endure forever and we have left our mom in His Hands. Her last spoken words were, "Yes Lord, yes Lord, thank you, Jesus."
To anyone reading this, if you are in the Phoenix area and wish to come to her celebration of life at the First United Methodist Church in Glendale, Dec. 13th (Monday) at 11am. Click here for more details.
Happy New Year!
Today also marks the liturgical new year, I will make a separate entry for that.
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