The past week has been a whirlwind of life and death. Two friends in Christ have come to the end of their journey. Our second grandchild was born last Friday and my youngest daughter turned twenty this week. Such a swirl of experience covering the entire spectrum from birth to death!
In each situation families gather to pray, to remember, to anticipate and celebrate. We remember lives well lived. We pray for a life just beginning. We give thanks for a life that is maturing and finding purpose and direction.
We thank God who knows each of us by name since before we are born; who promises to be with us always; whose grace makes all things possible.
I find myself praying in Ephesians 3: I pray that you may have the power to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Now to him who by the power at work within us is able to accomplish abundantly far more than all we can ask or imagine, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
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