📢 Forum Update - Hello everyone! I've made an improvement to the forum that should make following active discussions much easier. Beginning today, forum topics will display the most recent replies first (while keeping the original topic post at the top), so you no longer have to navigate through multiple pages to find the latest conversation. This change also helps improve the browsing experience in long-running discussions with many pages of replies. If you notice anything that doesn't seem to be working correctly or have any feedback, please let me know. — Richard G. I'm so sorry, Donna, that you and your husband went through what could only be called a nightmare experience for so long. Your sentiments are beautifully made. My husband passed away 2 years ago and thankfully is also with the Lord! May God bless you and comfort you continually in the coming days until we all are released to be there too. Hallelujah! Elaine :rose: My husband passed away Feb. 17th after a 12 year battle of Lewy Body disease, his suffering seemed unnecessarily long . . . . Especially rough as well is not knowing why? . . Still God knew and does know His purposes as He is ever Sovereign . . ~ Larry is now in Heaven, and that brings great comfort, ~ ~ ~ soon God's children will never suffer ever again, grief, pain, loss, and sorrow, in the rapture of our Lord's catching away . . ~~ . . . what a hope, what truth, our gifted faith abiding the believer ~~ As Becky says: No more tears and sorrow ~ My mom is a cancer survivor but last year was extremely difficult. She was just cleared by her doctors last week and we all breathed a collective sigh of relief. But tomorrow I will be attending a memorial service for my next door neighbor's wife who die of cancer in January. It just guts the essence out of all involved, even when they survive. It's difficult to put the pieces of your life back together. I cannot and do not want to imagine how the loss of my mother would have affected our family. My heart and prayers go out to you and your friend's family :rose: This morning while praying about an event this summer, I felt like God said I wouldn’t be here. That hasn’t happened before. Every time I ask about his return, God says something like, “I am the alpha and omega, beginning and the end. I know the end from the beginning and my righteousness will prevail.” And yet today it was something different. And so I asked again. “For real??” Of course, it could be anything. My heart. My longing. Or worse - I just had a friend pass away yesterday after learning 2 weeks ago she had cancer, leaving behind a family. My heart is broken for her and the families of two other friends who’ve passed from cancer in the last 6 months. Another mother and a teen. So heavy. Hard. Suffocating loss. But maybe it WILL be over soon. And tears will BE NO MORE. In light of that, how should I live? I ask. As we all are asking. And He says to abide in him. Clothed in His righteousness. Looking to the sky for our hope and groom. Hahaha. that's so funny you two!!! Yes, I certainly was excited by Whisenant's book and tried so hard to get others excited, too! Thanks for the tip on how to be raptured! Lol You must have been privy to a dream I had once where I was flapping my arms up and down and actually started to rise...but I hit the ceiling ...and woke up! Oh well...one of these days when we least expect it...except I never have a day when I don't expect it!!!!! :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo:
