Funeral for a Young Mother
Jeff Strite
Psalm 103:1-18
Psalm 103 tells us ''God shows compassion on us like a Father shows compassion on his children. He knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust. As for man, his days are like grass; he flourishes like a flower of the field for the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place knows it no more.
Life is fragile... and sometimes Life is way too short. We have this idea that people should live 80 or 90 years, but lots of folks don't get that much. And somehow that doesn't seem quite fair. Lives are cut short that we believed should have last longer. But they don't.
Keara was one of those. Her life was cut short. She was a young mother, a daughter, a sister, a cousin. She was smart, talented, caring and loving. She was a woman who loved giving herself to others when they were in need. She helped her mother understand computers. Helped her half-sister when there was struggling with a medical problem. She tutored students - just for the joy of teaching them, and she could explain things in ways you could understand.
As her half-sister told me ''Keira was loved by everyone whose life she touched.''
Ron (her dad) told me how much she'd meant to him. She was the light of his life. She'd go to concerts with him, to Komet games. and to church with him. He said that one time, she'd become a Christian.
But now... she's gone.
And it doesn't seem right.
It's not fair.
It's not how things should have turned out.
And the Bible agrees. We were created to live forever, but because we live in a fallen world that is engulfed in sin, that's what we face. We will all one day die. And that's why funerals are so sad.
Even Jesus wept at a funeral.
He wept at the grave of one His best friends - a man named Lazarus.
But somehow that doesn't make any sense. Just a few moments later, Jesus cried out Lazarus' name and called him out of the grave.
So, why did Jesus weep?
I mean, when Jesus calle ...
Jeff Strite
Psalm 103:1-18
Psalm 103 tells us ''God shows compassion on us like a Father shows compassion on his children. He knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust. As for man, his days are like grass; he flourishes like a flower of the field for the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place knows it no more.
Life is fragile... and sometimes Life is way too short. We have this idea that people should live 80 or 90 years, but lots of folks don't get that much. And somehow that doesn't seem quite fair. Lives are cut short that we believed should have last longer. But they don't.
Keara was one of those. Her life was cut short. She was a young mother, a daughter, a sister, a cousin. She was smart, talented, caring and loving. She was a woman who loved giving herself to others when they were in need. She helped her mother understand computers. Helped her half-sister when there was struggling with a medical problem. She tutored students - just for the joy of teaching them, and she could explain things in ways you could understand.
As her half-sister told me ''Keira was loved by everyone whose life she touched.''
Ron (her dad) told me how much she'd meant to him. She was the light of his life. She'd go to concerts with him, to Komet games. and to church with him. He said that one time, she'd become a Christian.
But now... she's gone.
And it doesn't seem right.
It's not fair.
It's not how things should have turned out.
And the Bible agrees. We were created to live forever, but because we live in a fallen world that is engulfed in sin, that's what we face. We will all one day die. And that's why funerals are so sad.
Even Jesus wept at a funeral.
He wept at the grave of one His best friends - a man named Lazarus.
But somehow that doesn't make any sense. Just a few moments later, Jesus cried out Lazarus' name and called him out of the grave.
So, why did Jesus weep?
I mean, when Jesus calle ...
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