Shall I Try This Again?

Well, a lot has changed since I last attempted to blog. I have quite a bit more discretionary time, so maybe this time I'll keep at it - we'll see...

We have a dear lady in our church who has a very aggressive form of breast cancer, and apart from a miracle (which we continue to ask for), she has just a few months to live. I KNOW she will be healed, just not sure it will be in this life. That has us all thinking a great deal about death and suffering as of late. I love this depiction of a believer's death. I'm not sure who wrote it.

"I'm standing on the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She's an object of beauty and strength, and I stand and watch her until, at length, she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and the sky come down to mingle with each other.
And then I hear someone at my side saying, 'There, she's gone.' "Gone? Gone where? Gone from my sight, that is all. She is just as large in mast and hull as she was when she left my side. And just as able to bear her load of living freight to the place of destination. Her diminished size is in ME, not her.

"And just at that moment when someone at my side says, 'There, she's gone,' there are other eyes watching her coming, and there are other voices ready to take up the glad shout, 'Here she comes!'

"And that is dying."

"Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of His saints". Psalm 116:15

I want to always remember that!