My friend is in her last hours, we think. All we know is that it’s the Lord’s timing, not ours. Not ours, maybe partially hers, as we probably have hold-out power, from our experience knowing others when they were “ready” to pass. All throughout hospice and before it, we have known that she is a loving follower of Jesus, so especially now I’m sure she is taking her cues from Him.

God’s got a plan. God’s purpose has a timing. God loves us too much to not help us through life and death and life again. 

Perhaps that is what or why people holding on, in hospice, pass when they pass. Perhaps it is both at their time determined by God and also when (and especially so) someone here on earth has to ‘let go’ of the person and especially completely put their trust in Jesus. Waiting on a prayer – includes the Lord waiting to hear someone say: ‘I trust you Lord, that I will see her again in Heaven.’ Yes. Holding on, that a person is becoming more believing – that one soul already saved helps save another. Iron sharpens iron – so prayers help praying.  The saved witness all the Way.

Saving Grace is to be embraced.  “He who does the will of God abides forever.”

When I saw my hospice friend’s smile, one week ago now, it was a ‘happy to see you’ smile. When I think of how the Lord must help her/us in final days, I’ll say that I pray we have that inside smile to say: “Happy to see you Lord.” 

And when we say ‘I trust You Lord’, and let go, no matter when/what the day, I sense the smile of Jesus greeting His little children as friends, as souls, as saved. 

I believe in the Power of Prayer – the connection of closeness – and the embrace of Grace. God is waiting on a prayer… from us.

May the Lord rest our souls – in His Time – He knows the Way it all goes… May we all TRUST and KNOW.

Amen 

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1st John 2:5-8, 12-14, 15-17

… whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked. Brethren, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning. Again, a new commandment I write to you, which thing is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away, and the true light is already shining.

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I write to you, little children,
Because your sins are forgiven you for His name’s sake.
I write to you, fathers,
Because you have known Him who is from the beginning.
I write to you, young men,
Because you have overcome the wicked one.
I write to you, little children,
Because you have known the Father.
I have written to you, fathers,
Because you have known Him who is from the beginning.
I have written to you, young men,
Because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you,
And you have overcome the wicked one.

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Do Not Love the World
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.

AMEN AMEN