This week

This particular week of the year is always a challenge in my house.
March 14th my husband's father passed away (in 1993)
March 15 my great aunt died (in 2008....she was 97)
March 17 my son was born (1996)
March 17 my husbands mother passed away (2004)

This year......we know of 2 more people that died on the 14th. My sons birthday is a bright spot the week. But every year it's a challenge because my husband misses his parents. Not that he wants them to come back as they both died having known the Lord and are in heaven, but he still misses them.

With the job I have in the ER I see illness and death. I can't say it's easy to deal with but it's a learned adjustment. There are coping skills needed to get through the loss of the day and continue on with the rest of the shift. I look at death differently now than I used to. Not in a bad way....just different. I am grateful to God that I can be there for a family of someone who needs me at that moment they lose a loved one.

My mother in law was a beautiful lady. As she was dying there was no place on earth I wanted to be than right with her in those last weeks of her life. She had the love of Jesus pouring out of her in those last months. I think of her often and how her illness and the love she had for Jesus helped shape who I am today. It's truly amazing how God uses people and situations to draw us to His will. That thought About Him blows my mind. Had I not be available to be with her in those last weeks, things may have gone a different way......but God knows what we need and who he needs to use at just the right time. Amazing.

I never got to meet my father in law as he had passed before my husband and I got together. Everyone says how he was a wonderful man with a caring, giving heart. I will meet him one day when my savior brings me to His side in glory.

Death is not the end.....it's only the beginning of an eternal life that is beyond our comprehension! Are you ready? Are you living for God in accepting His son for your savior? Accepting him or rejecting him is the only decision we make in this life that matters. All the rest of the decisions we need to make on this earth are temporary......but deciding for or against Jesus has eternal effects. Jesus died to save us all. Jesus wants us to love him and live each day for Him.