Perhaps what prompted this was a conversation I had with a friend at my exercise class recently who had just attended two funerals that week of neighbors who had died. She told of the one man who had been confined to bed in the Nursing home and one morning as the nurse came into his room, she found the man not only out of bed but kneeling by the bed. He was dead but fixed in a kneeling position praying to the Lord. I just got goose bumps as I thought of what a way to go! What a message that sends to his loved ones of Who was most important in his life to the very end.
When a loved one dies in peace it is consoling and a gift to all of us left behind. None of us know what the dying process is like for we have not been this way before. It is unknown but we do know that the Lord will be with us and we will be ushered into glory. When someone dies in bitterness and anger what they leave behind is harmful and toxic but if they die in peace, it is nourishing and a gift that warms our heart even in our grieving. I know when my parents come to mind, I am left with such warmth and gratitude for all they left behind. Let us live with the desire to leave a spirit of peace for our family and friends and not a burden.
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