62:1 Truly my soul finds rest in God;
my salvation comes from him.
2 Truly he is my rock and my salvation;
he is my fortress, I will never be shaken.e
Today is the visitation for the Bartletts. I think both of these verses are ones for them to hold onto. If there was ever a time they would be shaken, it would be now. From all I read they are truly seeking God's comfort during this time of deep anguish that I cannot even begin to understand.
I pray their souls all find rest in God.
I intended to call or e-mail you yesterday and the day totally got away from me. I had thought about going up, but to your point this funereal and visitation will be absolutely huge.
As an alternative I wondered if maybe we could find a completely separate time to go and somehow serve the Bartlett family or show our love for them. When I lost my Dad seeing everyone at the funereal was great, but that was really the easy part there was so much energy it was hard to be too down in the dumps.
It was the days and months later when people had moved on to their daily lives that it was hardest for our family. That's when I felt alone, mad, sad and sometimes without direction. That is when someone would shoot me a note about a memory of my Dad or take time to talk with me about him that was most important too me. So with that I'm wondering if there is a way we can try to bless Dave and Linda that way too?
knut
those verses should be tatooed on my arm....or cross-stitched on my wall in my office, or something. Those are truly words to live by.
ReplyDeleteAs far as the Bartletts go.....I'm all in. I've been feeling a pull to go to Iowa. I couldn't do it yesterday or today.
I really like your idea. I just keep thinking about the influence they had on all of us. I know they've had that level of influence on hundreds of people.
They deserve to be shown some of that love back, in this crazy sad time for them.
Let's target a time, and go see em.
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