Thankful Thursdays ~ My Heart is Heavy Yet Full of Hope!

My heart is heavy and many thoughts have been running through my head today on this Thankful Thursday.  I have spent the entire day trying to decided what to share.

Most of the day it has been spent praying for my dear friend.  She has spent the week sitting by her father’s bedside after he was hit by a car while crossing a street.  He has been in an induced coma but after pulling back on medication he could not come out of it.

Today at 1:00 they removed his ventilator.  When daughters must make decisions on their father’s care it is simply indescribable.  I felt my friend’s pain, I felt her loss, I felt her grief and I felt her responsibility.  It was in 2008 that I had to make decisions over my parents’ care.  It is something a child never wants to do.

But all of her friends, and the friends of friends and even  friends of friends have been praying for a miracle.  Reading all the words of encouragement and prayers of support fill my heart with faith and hope but especially a heart of gratitude on this Thankful Thursday.  For in the midst of difficult times the body of Christ is amazingly powerful. How wonderful to be so loved.

I have found great comfort in the fact that the word of God says, to be absent from the Body is to be present with the Lord.  And frankly my dear friends, what I know of God and from his word, that must be a really wonderful thing.

As I faced my mother’s death and then my father’s, and now as we intercede for my dear friend and her father, I find a renewed peace and comfort in those words.  For me, there is peace and solace in knowing that in my sweet mom and dad’s death, they were given life and freedom and a new life in the fellowship of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
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So on this Thankful Thursday, February, 6, 2014 at 6:10. My friend’s daddy went to be with Jesus and she sat with him holding his hand until he took his last breath.  What a precious gift to spend the last moments of life together.  My friend’s faith has been amazing.

So today we cried, we celebrated, we grieved and we wait with anticipation to see those we love again one day.

On this Thankful Thursday, I am so grateful that our hope is in Christ and that I know with confidence where our parent’s are for now and ever more!

Dear friends, be blessed and encouraged abundantly as we remember that God is near the brokenhearted and as believers we know where we will spend eternity, safe in the arms of Christ!