My sweet friend received the ultimate healing today, and went home to be with the Lord.
You know, I have to be honest: it wasn't the healing I had hoped for. I wanted her to be healed HERE.... and for God to receive all the glory for that miraculous event... for people to see it and know that God's power is real and to begin praising Him and turning to Him because of it!
Somehow, I had fallen into thinking that was the only way He'd receive any glory out of her illness. He certainly wouldn't be receiving any glory by her dying, would he? What glory is there in that?
I realized, though, that God IS receiving glory and praise and adulation ... from Lory herself!
Who can praise the Lord, and give more glory to God, than the one who is standing in His presence, meeting Him face to face?
I will miss her, her family will miss her but how can I be selfish enough to want her here when she gets to be there... with Him!!?!
In the midst of such sadness, there was a beautiful moment that I would like to share: her precious husband placed his hands on her head, after the doctor made his pronouncement, and began thanking God for the years that they had together, for the wonderful woman that she was and for the many lives that she had touched, because she was no longer suffering, and for the hope that he had of being reunited with her again, before the throne, in Heaven.
Homefree! The Ultimate Healing!
I happened across your blog about your friend's death and 'ultimate healing'. The story parelelled my unborn granddaughter, who was diognosed with spina bifida at 2 months. We prayed almost hourly for her total and complete healing, sending her request on to multitudes of prayer chains. Her condition was worse with each new ultrasound, and April 3, 2009, at 6 months, she was stillborn. Like you, I felt the greatest, incredible glory would be to God if He would have healed her. Even though we accept her death, we are still not really understanding why she wasn't healed - so easy for God to do. But your story gave me much peace as it brought to my mind that she is healed; the ultimate healing... Thank you for sharing.
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It is hard/sad when I dear ones go home...sad for us as we will miss them, wonderful for them! Thank you for your perspective.
ReplyDeleteWe as Christians know the Glory our loved ones stepped into... and would not want to bring them back to this world and the pain they were in. But remember, a part of that person is still in your heart.
ReplyDeleteRemembering with joy the days you had together and what that person accomplished for the Lord. Things that your friend taught you God will bring to your rememberence at the most precious times... Like hugs from heaven. Praying for you and her family!
Hugs, Nickie