There is a little old man at our church that sits across the isle from us every week. He is a sweetheart! He wears his little yellow jacket and always asks about Eli. Yesterday I asked about his wife. She has had 9 boughts of cancer and this time they told her there is nothing else they can do. What do you do when someone says that to you or a loved one?!?! Well, he said she got up and went to work. WOW! Can you imagine? That is awesome! She got up and continued on... What a blessing!
One of my favorite quotes from Grey's Anatomy is about death. I know, kind of morbid, but it's such a good quote: We all die... Doctors are there and if we are lucky they can postpone death, but in the end we all die just the same.
But my thought on it is this... We will all die. There is no stopping it. We are human and humans die. When we die, how we die, it's all different. Some die very young and those are HARD deaths to deal with. Some die very old and expected. Some die in the middle of life and those are hard to deal with too. But what matters is what you die knowing. Do you know Jesus? Do you know that He came to save you and make you a place in Heaven? Do you know that God loves you so much that He sent His Son to die in your place on a cross many years ago? Those are the important things that you need to know!
I don't know why this was put onto my heart today to write about... But maybe it's because there has been so much death that I hear about lately... A friend from church is loosing her grandma, another woman from church just lost her mom... In the end we all die, it doesn't make it any easier, but it's truth. We have to come face to face with our mortality eventually... But