Thank you for checking in on us. You have been in my prayers.
A couple of the men from my church are also going through the grieving process.
One goes to a support group which seems to be helping. He lost his wife about 15 months ago, turned into a recluse and that did not work well at all.
The other lost his wife suddenly about 7 weeks ago. He is an officer of the church so he has to be around church members a lot. We are doing our best to hold him up in love.
I Bible study with widows and am learning that we all go through grief differently.
I will pray that you will always know that God loves you, and Joy, very much. I pray that you will always know that you have FR family. This site is full of good souls who will support you and love you. Indeed, we are family and neighbors.
Stay wrapped in love and grab comfort from Our Father on High.
Ephesians 3: 16 – 19 (The Living Bible translation)
That out of His glorious, unlimited resources He will give you the mighty inner strengthening of His Holy Spirit, and I pray that Christ will be more and more at home in your heart, living within you as you trust in Him. May your roots go down deep into the soil of God’s marvelous love; and may you be able to feel and understand, as all God’s children should, how long, how wide, how deep, and how high His love really is; and to experience this love for yourselves, though it is so great that you will never see the end of it or fully know or understand it. And so at last you will be filled up with God Himself.
Thank you for your mail which helps me to cope.
I especially appreciate your prayers that I will know that God loves Joy and me, too. I feel unworthy and it terrifies me to think of not being about to join Joy and God in Heaven.
Whenever I hear the Catholic, Jewish, Presbyterian and other strict rules I fear Joy and I have missed some adherence that will be disastrous. But I believe God is all love and compassion and will recognize Joy and the lesser in saintliness me as souls He will allow into Heaven. Joy never had the anger and grudge holding that are among my worst faults——she set aside anything bad done to her and forgave them instantly. So sweet to all.
A kind childhood friend of Joy’s reassured me that the strict, rigid types who set themselves above others with judgment on rules being followed or not, are not better and special——and should be ignored as intolerant.
Thanks for your prayers and mail. I have my ups and downs and realize grief can’t quickly be ended. I will pray for the 7 weeks widower and the former recluse and for you.
Best,
-Tom