I Still Believe
As I say too often say, "Life is a lot. A lot of joy and a lot of heartache." One day last week, I got a call that a friend's father was traveling with his wife out west and died in his sleep. This same friend lost her son to suicide a year ago.
That same day was the one year anniversary of another friend's son's horrific murder in their driveway. She held her dying teenaged son in her arms.
That morning I had awakened to a really fun dream about a friend's mother inviting me to visit her in Florida where she had booked a retirement home for the winter months. The dream was so vivid. We took water aerobics classes, took an Uber to a wonderful seafood restaurant, went to a concert, the beach, it was fabulous. This woman got pedicures every month with her daughter and in the dream our beds were reclining pedicure chairs with fabulous linens, sans the water tubs. I couldn't wait to call the mom and tell her about the dream. Waking up, I suddenly realized I couldn't call her, she had died over two months before.
The following day a friend was coming to give a CBS lecture to a women's class here at Shiloh. This woman's husband passed away following a cancer battle, then two weeks before this posting her mother left this earth.
All the people mentioned above still believe that Jesus, being God in the flesh, came to earth as the ultimate sacrifice for their sins. Because of their faith, they believe they will spend eternity with Jesus and their loved ones who share the same belief.
I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. John 14:6
You can feel the heartache in Jeremy Camp's music video "I Still Believe." It's because the grief is very real for Camp. When he was 23 his first wife, Lynn Henning-Camp died of ovarian cancer at only 21 years of age. They had only been married three months.
The Song
"I Still Believe" Jeremy Camp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZPMZV9MVVY&list=RDfZPMZV9MVVY&start_radio=1
