Looking Back!

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1. Hi Sarah, I have watched you & your Mom on Daystar in days past. My Mom went Home to the Lord 13 days ago and I know when she breathed her last breath on this earth, she breathed her next in Heaven. Everything I ever learned about the Lord, about Love, family, etc. I learned from my Mom. She was (and remains) my best friend. My Dad and all of my siblings are also w/ Jesus now. I’ve been elevated to the position of Matriarch. My Mom was 99 years young when she passed over. She had lived to see her children’s children’s children (Psalm 128:6) God has been so good to us, my Nephew’s wife gave birth two days after my Mom’s funeral. My only regret is that my Mom loved babies and she would have loved to see this one, too. One day she will. I find myself teetering between weeping/wailing and rejoicing because I know she is whole & healed. Someone said to me, “I’m sorry for your loss” and I said,
   “I didn’t ‘lose’ her. I know where she went and I know Who she is with.” Straight from this earth, up into Glory and into Jesus’ Arms.
   Anyway, I ordered your book this evening, “Heavenly Help” – Please keep me in your prayers that I can become 1/10th of the Woman of God that my Mom was.
   In Jesus’ Love and mine, too, shelly
   p.s. I posted this on my Facebook page right before my mother’s funeral:
   Three months ago, we planned a gathering for immediate family to celebrate my Mother’s 99th birthday. She told me it was one of the happiest days of her life and not because she reached an unbelievable milestone. Her heart overflowed with joy as her beloved family, especially the grandchildren and great-grandchildren arrived at her home. There was laughter, love, fellowship and so much fun even during this awful pandemic that has kept families apart.
   Twelve hours from now, those same loved ones who filled my Mom’s heart with an abundance of love and laughter just a few months ago will gather again. At a funeral home. To say goodbye. Life is so hard sometimes but Scripture tells us that:
   ‘There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:
   a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance…’

   There will be weeping and mourning but there will be laughing and remembering and most of all, just loving one another. We’ll get thru it because when we gathered on Wednesday night at her home to prepare the photos to bring to the funeral home, there was crying but there was also laughing because so many precious memories were shared. There were so many memories. So many moments in time that were captured on film.
   My parents left us a legacy of love when they stepped from this life into the everlasting life (and a boatload of photographs)

   Yes, twelve hours from now there will be tears. There will be laughter. There will be shared memories. We will cling to one another and we will lean on one another because it is what they taught us to do all of our lives: Love one another.
   One day, there will be another grand celebration in Heaven for all of us. Because of Jesus. They taught us that, too.

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2. God is good and he can do nothing wrong

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