Comfort in Christ

  1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope.  For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus.
 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep.  For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.  Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.  Therefore comfort one another with these words.

I wanted to put this first because 

  Larry and I attended a hospice memorial

last night. It was very nice, but difficult.

Those things always are. Going into the

holidays is always hard as well. I remember

I was in grief group and told the chaplain

that 2015 was going to be a very hard year

because that would be the first full year

without John. He said that was the first

time he'd ever heard that and was going

to remember that for future groups. It's

hard to believe he will be gone 5 years in March.

This is not an optical illusion, I guess, but

that's what it reminds me of. This is another

piece of fun that I received in a swap. I've

had it for months and never knew what to

do with it, although I knew I wanted to

keep it. Then this came to mind. I had not

intended to ink the outside of the card,

but I smudged a little ink on the bottom so....

You can see Karen's cards here.  I love them both.

Happy Thursday!