A time for every purpose under heaven

I was just going to share my 24 week pregnancy photo with you all today, and tell you how well things are going (praise the Lord!).

 

 

Then, John got the call from his dad this morning that Maw had crossed the dark river . . .

 

Hopefully, now, her soul is with Grandpa Smith, and Uncle Steve, and John's other Grandmother, and with our friend Dan, and hopefully, hopefully, with our first little baby.

 

That is, we have hopes that she is now with Jesus.

 

They tell us that she went peacefully in her sleep.

 

 



"Abraham breathed his last and died in a ripe old age, an old man and satisfied with life; and he was gathered to his people."
(Genesis 25:8)


Now I further saw, that betwixt them and the gate was a river; but there was no bridge to go over, and the river was very deep. At the sight, therefore, of this river the pilgrims were much stunned; but the men that went with them said, You must go through, or you cannot come at the gate.

The pilgrims then began to inquire if there was no other way to the gate. To which they answered, Yes; but there hath not any, save two, to wit, Enoch and Elijah, been permitted to tread that path since the foundation of the world, nor shall until the last trumpet shall sound. The pilgrims then, especially Christian, began to despond in their mind, and looked this way and that, but no way could be found by them by which they might escape the river. Then they asked the men if the waters were all of a depth. They said, No; yet they could not help them in that case; for, said they, you shall find it deeper or shallower as you believe in the King of the place.

Then they addressed themselves to the water, and entering, Christian began to sink, and crying out to his good friend Hopeful, he said, I sink in deep waters; the billows go over my head; all his waves go over me. Selah.

Then said the other, Be of good cheer, my brother: I feel the bottom, and it is good.
(John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress)


" . . . a time to be born and a time to die . . . "
(Ecclesiastes 3:2)