Death, Where is your sting?
"My entire body aches from mourning the deaths of my friend and her three children. The memorial service was yesterday..." I wrote those words just a few short weeks ago. My heart and mind have move past the depth of grief I felt that day, but the surrealness of their passing remains. I pray, when I think of them, for the husband and father left behind who is working to learn his new normal. To have four beautiful lives stripped away so suddenly is a jarring, shocking thing. I never want to have to experience that again. Many people have asked me how the memorial service was, and my response is always, "horrible", but that is not the whole picture. There were moments of exquisite beauty too. The moment that stands out the most was hearing this husband and dad declare the faith in Jesus his wife and children had, and how much they would want us to know Him. Heather, the mom, was a friend and team-mate (she served on my worship team, and walked along-side me th