--DEATH ~~
--HEAVEN/ Our Blessed Hope

--BOB RUSSELL, senior minister of Southeast Christian Church in Louisville, Kentucky, told this story:

When my father died, there was too much snow at our home in Pennsylvania to have a funeral procession. At the end of the service, the funeral director said, "I'll take your dad's body to the grave." I felt we were leaving something undone, so I gathered five of my relatives, and we piled into a four-wheel-drive vehicle, plowed through ten inches of snow into the cemetery, and got about fifty yards from my dad's grave.

The wind was blowing about twenty-five miles an hour. The six of us lugged that casket down to the grave site. We watched as his body was lowered into that grave.

I wanted to pray before we left. "Lord, this is such a cold, lonely place." I got choked up and battled to keep my composure. Finally I just whispered, "But I thank You that to be absent from the body is to be present in Your warm arms. Amen. "
--(2 Corinthians 5:8)
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-Preaching Today ~~