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Tuesday, November 5, 2019

Life Goes On

A few weeks ago we attended the wedding of my neice.
 She married our lifelong neighbour's son!
At the wedding hubby and I chatted for a little while with the groom's uncle
 (age 63) who moved to Manitoba years ago and raised his family there.
He encouraged me to make/take the time to go with Jim/hubby sometimes
because we just never know what life can bring.
Since that conversation 3+ weeks ago Jim has met him completely unexpectedly (twice!)
as he drove through Manitoba.
Suddenly a truck pulled alongside his truck and a man with a friendly smile
and honk waved as he went by. It was Ken Weber!
Yesterday he passed away suddenly due to a heart attack!

A few days ago a this community was rocked by the death of a young woman
 killed in an awful traffic accident, leaving us asking,
(after coming through a sorrow-stricken October)
 who/what next?!!

 Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death,
 so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope.
For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again,
we also believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in Him.…
1 Thess. 4:13-14 

This song was played the other Sunday for our 'hurting bad' church family
as we mourn the sudden loss of a few of its members...

because, life goes on!

Life goes on
The holes where loss
Leaves gaping wounds
Ah, who can fill?
Where Death
(That Ruthless Random Beast)
With precise aim
Is never still

Life goes on:
Worlds rocked anew
With Grief’s insistent
Unforeseen
Where all we knew
Cannot return
To be the way
That it had been

Death’s sickle swings
Ah, who is next
To fall beneath its
Binding blade
Where love, ah love
Will suffer long
The aftermath
Of parting’s trade

Where life goes on
In spite of Death
(Though much is taken
Much remains)
To stir our hearts
And steal our Breath
As Hope in God
Alone sustains

Life goes on;
It eddies, swirls
Where love and sorrow
Ache and brim
As love of God
Kindly consoles
And fills the holes
With hope in Him


© Janet Martin


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