This week has been a long one for us and many others in our family and the church family. My husband?s oldest sister was in the hospital for a couple weeks, in very bad shape. Her heart was not pumping blood like it should have been. And, we eventually lost her on Saturday night.

Last Monday, my pastor?s daughter had to go to the emergency room because of her blood pressure which has shot up very high. She is a recipient of a kidney transplant, and she has to be very careful of her health. They kept her over night and did lots more tests on her. They eventually found she had six blockages from the medication she had taken as anti-rejection medication over the past thirteen years. She was lucky; most transplant patients never make it to that stage before they die. God has a work for her to do, and she?s in the process of writing a book about her experiences for encouragement to others who have had lupus, and had to undergo things she has over the years. She had the operation on Friday. Today, when I went in to see her, she had improved so much since we saw her on Saturday night.

We each come here on the way out. It does not matter how long we live, we are ?decaying? one day at a time. But, we have the opportunity to live ?forever? ...... oh, not here on earth, but with the Lord,eternally. When the Lord starts tugging at our heart strings, He is wanting us to accept His offer of Grace by faith, to become heirs to the Kingdom of God. Not all will accept His offer, but many will. We have no doubt that both of the people I?ve spoken about were/are truly living for the Lord. Both his sister and my pastor?s daughter are people unafraid and unashamed to witness to others. Hopefully, each of us will follow in their footsteps in life and in death.

Psalms 27:4 One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.

James 4:14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

Copyright 2005 by Barbara Sanders, Empire, AL. Used by permission.
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