Archive for March, 2007
I am Insufficient
I am insufficient, but my Father liveth forever, and my Defender is sufficient for me. For he is the Selfsame who art all my good. Thou art Omnipotent, who art with me, even before I am with thee.
-St. Augustine, from The Confessions, Book Ten, Chapter IV, Paragraph 6
8He will swallow up death forever;and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces,and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth,for the Lord has spoken.
Isaiah 25:8
Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
Matthew 5:4
The house of mourning
2 It is better to go to the house of mourningthan to go to the house of feasting,for this is the end of all mankind,and the living will lay it to heart.…4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning,but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.(Ecclesiastes 7:2, 4)
Death Is Swallowed Up In Victory
It was just over 2 years ago that my grandmother on my Mom’s side of the family passed away unexpectedly. Yesterday morning I got an all too familiar phone call. My other grandmother, Tena DeKoekkoek, passed away yesterday morning from a heart attack. She was sitting in the 3rd row of pews and the church [...]
