I spoke to a lady yesterday who said she had lost a loved one. I wouldn’t mention this, but what the Lord shared in me was profound.

The sum:
Don’t let what is inevitable, destroy your hope in any fashion. You will feel profound sadness when death visits or horrible sickness anything that the world considers tragically bad. Or you may feel careless and free when God‘s love is blazingly apparent. For the Christian, both are complete Extreme in the project of salvation.

But neither let yourself be driven to a place below the grave with your sadness and “poor little me”, nor neither let yourself be driven to a place where you are not yet; the depriving creation of the witness of Christ.

Rather live your life with complete and utter respect for the things that are absolute, inevitable, constantly approaching yet not here live your life (in the now) knowing that the pain and the joy are like quotation marks around your life, each one having a Place each one as valuable in its own right. Then you find the peace of God