Tag: funeral
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A Picture of Heaven – Chapter 9
The born again crowds all seem to have a plan for our salvation and confident assurance of a place in Heaven… I just don’t see it in most of their lives. I see people who talk about Jesus and Heaven differently in different places. I don’t even think that they understand the salvation they preach.…
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A Picture of Heaven – Chapter 8
My eyes drew back from their distant stare to gaze away from the picture. I gazed back from yesterday and looked intently toward the cross at the front of the church. I wondered: How does Jesus fit into all of this? I had never quite seen the connection between Jesus and all of the pictures…
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A Picture of Heaven – Chapter 7
I once went to a church with a friend, where eventually everyone was jumping up and down to the music. They were smiling and shouting like they were in heaven on earth. Thing is though, that we couldn’t stay there. My friend, as I recall, had a pretty tough time of it in ordinary life…
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A Picture of Heaven – Chapter 6
I swallowed hard and looked away as a tear came to my eye. Of course, I thought, maybe that’s her mommy in the casket. I had not had time for thought of all of the family connections of my lost loved one. Friends…dear and rare friends… become just like family. We don’t really know them.…
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A Picture of Heaven – Chapter 5
[In case you are joining our serial short story about grief a little late, here is a link to the beginning.] “Do you see all those stars,” the little girl asked? “There are more of them in heaven than sand on the beach. Know how I know?” I nodded that I didn’t and her dad…
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A Picture of Heaven – Chapter 4
When we were children, all of us remember “visiting” some favorite great grandpa, or grandma, or aunt or cousin… (The connections of the generations do keep getting closer, don’t they?) … and we had to file past an open coffin with a corpse, all the time thinking things like, ‘Grandpa never wore a suit,’ or…