Hope's Stomping Grounds

Today's post is as bittersweet as they come...most recently mentioned is free from suffering at last!Gathered to God on Monday, Dec.18 Ps.116:15Precious in the sight of the LORD Is the death of His saints. Recently I received the book below,*Reflections of Jesus,a gift from the author, as a way of saying thank-you!(I am delighted to have the poem included in it) When I received the news that Wayne passed away I picked up this bookand looked and looked at the painting on the coverweeping sad-glad tears as I pictured him like this, His hurting is over!Please pray for healing for the family as they mourn the loss of husband and father,son, brother, etc.as they bear both deep grief and deep relief! 'our loss is his gain' said a family member last night at the visitation. 'a great wait/weight lifted at last' murmured his sorrow-worn wife We mourn, but not as sorrow grieves, without hope, by God’s graceThe rending tear that death achieves and mortal eyes surmiseDoes not reveal the Whole; the Unseen of faith’s resting placeAs Sight, with no dark glass between beholds The Promised Prize As God, gathers a suffering Soul into eternityHealed from the hurts that take their toll on this side of death’s doorFreed from the weight of waiting for the Final VictoryBeyond futile debating of life’s why-when-and-wherefore How precious in the sight of God is the death of His saintsFor those who love Him; thus, no bitter barter tunes or taintsThe tears that flow, because through Christ the Soul from hell is spared The interim that Time employs until this life is throughAnd loss no longer vexes joys with Heaven’s sweetest gainsIs but Hope’s Stomping Grounds, a tie that Heaven will undoWhen in the twinkling of an eye, death rends life’s binding chains Then, comfort one another with the hope in Christ aloneGod hears our prayers and mothers our sorrow-broken heartsHe tromps Hope's Stomping Grounds with us, (not one step on our own) Until the hope found/bound in Jesus, faith's finished fabric parts © Janet Martin May we all make our calling sure while time is still on our side!May the reason for the Christmas Season become profoundly deareras we believe, and receive the inheritance only the Saviour of the Soul will/can give;Living Hope Rom.15:13Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing,that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. 1 Thess.4:13-18But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren,concerning those who have fallen asleep,lest you sorrow as others who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again,even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus.For this we say to you by the word of the Lord,that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep.For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout,with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God.And the dead in Christ will rise first.Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught uptogether with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.And thus we shall always be with the Lord.Therefore comfort one another with these words. *if you would like to order the bookReflections of Jesusclick here