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To: Jim Robinson; trussell; Salvation; Gamecock; Jean Chauvin; OrthodoxPresbyterian; CCWoody; ...

PRAYERS LIFTED FOR COMFORT!

I may say to those of you also who have been bereaved—if you believe in providence you may grieve; but your grief must not be excessive. I remember at a funeral of a friend hearing a pretty parable which I have told before, and will tell again. There was much weeping on account of the loss of a loved one, and the minister put it thus. He said, “Suppose you are a gardener employed by another; it is not your garden, but you are called upon to tend it, and you have your wages paid you. You have taken great care with a certain number of roses; you have trained them up, and there they are, blooming in their beauty. You pride yourself upon them. You come one morning into the garden, and you find that the best rose has been taken away. You are angry: you go to your fellow-servants, and charge them with having taken the rose. They will declare that they had nothing at all to do with it; and one says, “I saw the master walking here this morning; I think he took it.” Is the gardener angry then? No, at once he says, “I am happy that my rose should have been so fair as to attract the attention of the master. It is his own: he hath taken it; let him do what seemeth him good.”

C.H.SPURGEON


51 posted on 03/24/2008 8:58:48 AM PDT by alpha-8-25-02 ("SAVED BY GRACE AND GRACE ALONE")
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To: alpha-8-25-02

Spurgeon is incredible. Thank you so much for posting this.


83 posted on 03/24/2008 9:14:00 AM PDT by spacejunkie
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To: alpha-8-25-02; Jim Robinson

We are so sorry. Please accept our condolences.

May the Lord Of Heaven and Earth grant the Robinson family the peace that passes all understanding. May Don rest in the Everlasting Arms of Jesus Christ and we thank God for the gift that was his beloved wife, Barbara. In Jesus Name,amen.

thank you for the ping brother alpha!


97 posted on 03/24/2008 9:25:27 AM PDT by tajgirvan (Please Pray for Steve Godbold, Christian Missionary Kidnapped in Chad, Africa. 10/11/07)
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