Category: Losing a Loved One

Bible Verse of The Day – 2-17-22

John 14:2 (NKJV) 2 In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

We Lost a wonderful friend this past week. She was 85 years old and loved the Lord tremendously.

I don’t know how she found us. But when she did, we wrote back and forth frequently, and we became very good friends.

She would even get on me if we were traveling and didn’t let her know when we had arrived at our destination.

We believe our friendship was divine; of God. Like many others have, she was doing a search at some point in the past and stumbled upon My Bible Verse of The Day.

Though we will miss her terribly, we rejoice in knowing that we have been blessed with her friendship and that she is now in the presence of God. How do we know this? Because of her relationship in Christ Jesus.

Oh, how our heart aches, but yet also rejoices!

How can that be? It’s the love of God and His presence in our lives that connects us as brothers and sisters in Christ. We are one in Him.

Today, as we sit here missing our good friend already (wishing we could get one more email from her), we know she is with God and in our Heavenly home.

What is she doing? That we don’t know. But we can just imagine she must truly be in awe and happy beyond what words can describe!

May God bless everyone today who is feeling the loss of someone dear. They may have left us here, but God has them.

The same God that holds them, holds us. Let Him comfort us and fill the emptiness.

We will see them again in the place where He has gone before us, and we will celebrate eternal life together.

John 17:3 (NKJV) 3 And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443

401-439-3780

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Bible Verse of The Day – 4-23-18

James 4:13-14 (NKJV) 13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”; 14 whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

Life. We so often look at it as though it will last forever.

But we will all one day realize that life here on earth is temporal and fleeting.

It seems that every week during the last few months we have been reminded again and again of the fragility and fleetingness of life. It truly is only a vapor that is here and gone before we know it.

Friends, acquaintances, family and loved ones leave us, and leave a gaping hole in our hearts, as we say goodbye to them and mourn their passing.

Today we celebrated our oldest grandson’s 11th birthday. Such young life, full of vitality and energy! And so incredible to watch as he grows up right before our eyes, as are all four of our grandchildren.

But even as we watch them grow, we also say goodbye to others. And our hearts ache with the loss. It’s something that we all deal with at different times in our lives; Loss and mourning.

But know this; God wants us to let Him help our hearts heal. No, the person we have lost can never be replaced. But God can touch our hearts and heal them in a way that we might never think possible, if only we will let Him.

So, today we continue to remind everyone about how precious life is, and how not one person reading this is promised a tomorrow. So be sure to love those around you with your whole heart. Forgive and ask for forgiveness quickly.

Take the time to do those things that you want to do with those who are close to you. Don’t leave yourself open to living many years of regret when someone you love passes from this life to eternity.

Life is here. And then it is gone. Let’s live it while it’s here. And love while we can.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

401-315-0902

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Bible Verse of The Day – 6-12-14

(Hebrews 10:23 NKJV)  Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.

Death is a hard thing for the mind to comprehend. To think that someone can actually be here in front of us talking, walking, laughing, and breathing one minute and be gone the next, with no life left in them at all, is beyond our understanding. Some people can get stuck trying to figure it all out. They can never get past it and they stop living because they get so hung up on it.

My mother-in-law died of cancer at the very young age of 46. During her last 24 hours of life, she had been in and out of seizures and could barely speak. But right before she left us, she made sure we were all in the room. She came out of her seizure. She was alert and said pretty clearly, “it’s time for me to go now, don’t cry, I love you. Goodbye.”

We stood there and watched her take her last breath. One tear rolled down her cheek and she was gone. We were never to speak to her again, never to hear her voice, her laughter, her cry or to feel her touch again.

We knew she was with the Lord and He gave her the strength and alertness to say one last thing to us and we were very grateful. It meant so much to know she was safely in His arms and we didn’t have to watch her suffer anymore.

But it can still be hard at times, when you lose someone. You miss them terribly and it’s hard to comprehend what really took place. You wonder what they’re doing and where they’re at. No one has perfect answers to these questions because no one really knows exactly, except for God Himself.

It’s in those moments that we don’t understand or comprehend it all, that we have to trust God and His promise to us and rest in knowing that He is faithful. Our hope is in HIM!!

(Ecclesiastes 3:11 NKJV)  He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end.

Trust Him with your loved one today. Enjoy your life. it’s OK to move on. They are safe and we can rest knowing that God is faithful!!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

401-315-0902

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