Today we said our final goodbyes to Jesse, and placed him in the Lord's loving arms. We believe that is where he keeps us all, so that we will never be fully separated from him.
He was trying to turn his life around, and just didn't quite get there before the damage he'd done to himself caught up to him. He is healed, now, no longer addicted and broken. There remains for us the sadness of seeing his daughters grow up without their dad, but since he wasn't married to either of their moms, there is also the hope of the Lord will providing for each of them a dad who will care for them as his own. And there is the knowledge that there are two generations of grandparents and aunts and uncles who will continue to pour love into their lives.
I know that his parents will carry their pain for a very long time; in some ways it will never be gone from them, though it will not always be as acute as it is today. I am so grateful to have been able to minister to them in music, and especially to have been able to help their dear friends express their love in song, too.
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