--My Father Is Now In Heaven~~

-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, Jesus. Thank you for all the wonderful years you gave to us as a family. Amen~"

--Preaching Today/ (Heaven)--"I WILL RISE" / --Chris Tomlin ~ -<https://youtu.be/DiHZOPtr3f8>
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Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." [John 14:6]